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Take up thy cross, the Saviour said

Author: Charles William Everest (1814-1877) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 297 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Church Ministry; Church Year Lent; Commitment; Discipleship; Future hope; Humility; Lent; Other Saints and Festivals Matthias the Apostle; Proper 17 Year A; Proper 18 Year C; Proper 7 Year A; Proper 9 Year B; The Third Sunday of Lent Year B; Passiontide Lyrics: 1 Take up thy cross, the Saviour said, if thou wouldst my disciple be; deny thyself, the world forsake, and humbly follow after me. 2 Take up thy cross: let not its weight fill thy weak spirit with alarm; his strength shall bear thy spirit up, and brace thy heart, and nerve thine arm. 3 Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame, nor let thy foolish pride rebel: thy Lord for thee the cross endured, to save thy soul from death and hell. 4 Take up thy cross then in his strength, and calmly every danger brave; 'twill guide thee to a better home, and lead to victory o'er the grave. 5 Take up thy cross, and follow Christ, nor think till death to lay it down; for only they who bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown. 6 To thee, great Lord, the One in Three, all praise for evermore ascend: O grant us in our home to see the heavenly life that knows no end. Scripture: Luke 9:23-27 Used With Tune: BRESLAU

Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise

Author: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 219 hymnals Topics: Church Year Easter; Easter; Future hope; Jesus Names and images for; Other Saints and Festivals Mary Magdalene; Praise; The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C; The Second Sunday of Easter Year A; The Third Sunday of Easter Year B Lyrics: 1 Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise; sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise: he who on the cross a victim for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits of the holy harvest field, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield; then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine, from the furrows of the grave. 3 Christ is risen, we are risen; shed upon us heavenly grace, rain, and dew, and gleams of glory from the brightness of thy face; that we, with our hearts in heaven, here on earth may fruitful be, and by angel-hands be gathered, and be ever, Lord, with thee. 4 Alleluia! Alleluia! Glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the Saviour, who has gained the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity; Alleluia! Alleluia! to the Triune Majesty. Scripture: John 15:1-8 Used With Tune: LUX EOI

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Author: John Mason Neale (1818-1866); Jean Tisserand (d. 1494) Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 191 hymnals Topics: Angels; Church Year Easter; Doubt; Easter; Faith; Other Saints and Festivals Thomas the Apostle; The Second Sunday of Easter Year B; Victory Lyrics: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 1 O sons and daughters, let us sing! The King of heaven, the glorious King, o'er death to-day rose triumphing. Alleluia! 2 That Easter morn, at break of day, the faithful women went their way to seek the tomb where Jesus lay. Alleluia! 3 An angel clad in white they see, who sat, and spake unto the three, 'Your Lord doth go to Galilee.' Alleluia! 4 That night the apostles met in fear; amidst them came their Lord most dear, and said, 'My peace be on all here.' Alleluia! 5 When Thomas first the tidings heard, how they had seen the risen Lord, he doubted the disciples' word. Alleluia! 6 'My piercèd side, O Thomas, see; my hands, my feet I show to thee; not faithless, but believing be.' Alleluia! 7 No longer Thomas then denied; he saw the feet, the hands, the side; 'Thou art my Lord and God,' he cried. Alleluia! 8 How blest are they who have not seen, and yet whose faith hath constant been, for they eternal life shall win. Alleluia! 9 On this most holy day of days, to God your hearts and voices raise in laud and jubilee and praise, Alleluia! Scripture: Mark 16:1-7 Used With Tune: O FILII ET FILIAE

We have a gospel to proclaim

Author: Edward Joseph Burns (b. 1938) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Church Year Christmas; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Easter; Church Year Ascension; Church Year Christ the King; Evangelism; Holy Spirit inspiration of; Jesus Names and images for; Other Saints and Festivals Mark the Evangelist; Other Saints and Festivals Bible Sunday; Proper 22 Year C; The Church's Ministry and Mission; The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C; The Third Sunday before Lent Year B; The Third Sunday of Easter Year A Scripture: Matthew 28 Used With Tune: FULDA

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee

Author: Stuart K. Hine (1899-1989) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 137 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Atonement; Beauty; Children and All-Age Worship; Church Year Good Friday; Creation; Creation and the Environment; Jesus coming again; Other Saints and Festivals Harvest Thanksgiving; Praise; The Second Sunday before Advent Year A; The Second Sunday before Lent Year A; The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Rogationtide First Line: O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Scripture: Psalm 8 Used With Tune: HOW GREAT THOU ART

Angel-voices ever singing

Author: Francis Pott (1832-1909) Meter: 8.5.8.5.8.4.3 Appears in 379 hymnals Topics: Dedication Festival; Saints St Michael and All Angels; Angels; Arts and Creativity; Church Worship; God in majesty; Music and Song; Other Saints and Festivals Joseph of Nazareth; Other Saints and Festivals Michael and all Angels; Other Saints and Festivals Luke the Evangelist; Praise; Proper 15 Year B; Self-offering Lyrics: 1 Angel-voices ever singing round thy throne of light, angel-harps for ever ringing, rest not day nor night; thousands only live to bless thee and confess thee Lord of might. 2 Thou who art beyond the farthest mortal eye can scan, can it be that thou regardest songs of sinful man? Can we know that thou art near us, and wilt hear us? Yea, we can. 3 Yea, we know that thou rejoicest o'er each work of thine; thou didst ears and hands and voices for thy praise design; craftsman's art and music's measure for thy pleasure all combine. 4 In thy house, great God, we offer of thine own to thee; and for thine acceptance proffer all unworthily hearts and minds and hands and voices in our choicest psalmody. 5 Honour, glory, might, and merit thine shall ever be, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, blessèd Trinity. Of the best that thou hast given earth and heaven render thee. Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Used With Tune: ANGEL VOICES

I will sing the wondrous story

Author: Francis Harold Rowley (1854-1952) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 287 hymnals Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Future hope; God Presence of; Heaven; Jesus Life and Ministry; Other Saints and Festivals Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist; Saints; The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B; The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B Scripture: Isaiah 43:2 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

In Christ there is no east or west

Author: John Oxenham, (Wiiliam Arthur Dunkerley) (1852-1941) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 331 hymnals Topics: Church Universal; Communion of Saints; Community; Community; Ecumenism; Other Saints and Festivals The Conversion of Paul; Proper 13 Year C; Proper 15 Year A; Reconciliation; The Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C; Unity Lyrics: 1 In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth. 2 In him shall true hearts everywhere their high communion find; his service is the golden cord, close binding humankind. 3 Join hands, then, children of the faith, whate'er your race may be; who serves my Father as his child is surely kin to me. 4 In Christ now meet both east and west, in him meet south and north; all Christlike souls are one in him, throughout the whole wide earth. Scripture: Mark 3:31-35 Used With Tune: KILMARNOCK

Thou, whose almighty word

Author: John Marriott (1780-1825) Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 446 hymnals Topics: Trinity Sunday; Church Year Trinity; Healing; Light; Other Saints and Festivals Bible Sunday; The Second Sunday before Lent Year A; The Second Sunday before Lent Year B Lyrics: 1 Thou, whose almighty word chaos and darkness heard, and took their flight; hear us, we humbly pray, and where the gospel-day sheds not its glorious ray, let there be light. 2 Thou, who didst come to bring on thy redeeming wing healing and sight, health to the sick in mind, sight to the inly blind, O now to all mankind let there be light. 3 Spirit of truth and love, life-giving, holy Dove, speed forth thy flight; move on the water's face, bearing the lamp of grace, and in earth's darkest place let there be light. 4 Holy and blessèd Three, glorious Trinity, Wisdom, Love, Might; boundless as ocean's tide rolling in fullest pride, through the earth far and wide let there be light. Scripture: Genesis 1:2 Used With Tune: MOSCOW

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,239 hymnals Topics: Anniversary, Church; Burial; Hope; Lesser Festivals; Nation; Trust Lyrics: 1 Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home: 2 Under the shadow of your throne Your saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is your arm alone, And our defense is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood Or earth received its frame, From everlasting you are God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in your sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Soon bears us all away; We fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. 6 O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Still be our guard while troubles last And our eternal home! Used With Tune: ST. ANNE