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Lo, he comes with clouds descending

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788); John Cennick (1718-1755) Appears in 782 hymnals Topics: Advent Sunday Year A; Advent Sunday Year B; Advent Sunday Year C; Church Year Advent; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Christ the King; The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year C Lyrics: 1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending, once for favoured sinners slain; thousand thousand saints attending swell the triumph of his train: Alleluia! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold him robed in dreadful majesty; those who set at naught and sold him, pierced and nailed him to the Tree, deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see. 3 Those dear tokens of his passion still his dazzling body bears, cause of endless exultation to his ransomed worshippers: with what rapture gaze we on those glorious scars! 4 Yea, Amen, let all adore thee, high on thine eternal throne; Saviour, take the power and glory, claim the kingdom for thine own: Alleluia! Thou shalt reign, and thou alone. Scripture: Zechariah 12:10 Used With Tune: HELMSLEY

Father of heaven, whose love profound

Author: Edward Cooper, 1770-1833 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 244 hymnals Topics: Year A Proper 23; Year B Second Sunday Before Lent; Year C Epiphany 2; Year C Proper 4; Year C Proper 5; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Monday of Holy Week First Line: Father of heav'n, whose love profound Lyrics: 1 Father of heav'n, whose love profound a ransom for our souls hath found, before thy throne we sinners bend, to us thy pard'oning love extend. 2 Almighty Son, incarnate Word, our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord, before thy throne we sinners bend, to us thy saving grace extend. 3 Eternal Spirit, by whose breath the soul is raised from sin and death, before thy throne we sinners bend, to us thy quick'ning power extend. 4 Thrice Holy! Father, Spirit, Son; mysterious Godhead, Three in One, before thy throne we sinners bend, grace, pardon, life, to us extend. Used With Tune: RIEVAULX

Forty Days and Forty Nights

Author: George Hunt Smyttan; Francis Pott Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 162 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Lent; Christian Year Ash Wednesday; Christian Year Lent; Lent 1 Year A; Lent 1 Year B; Lent 1 Year C Lyrics: 1 Forty days and forty nights you were fasting in the wild; forty days and forty nights tempted, and yet undefiled. 2 Sunbeams scorching all the day, chilly dewdrops nightly shed; prowling beasts about our way; stones your pillow, earth your bed. 3 Shall not we your trial share, and from earthly joys abstain, fasting with unceasing prayer, strong with you to suffer pain? 4 If temptations, vexing sore, flesh or spirit should assail, you their vanquisher before, grant we may not faint nor fail. 5 Keep, oh keep us, Saviour dear, ever constant by your side; that with you we may appear at the eternal Eastertide. Used With Tune: HEINLEIN

Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluia Appears in 555 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Ascension; Christian Year Ascension; Ascension Year A; Epiphany 7 Year C; Ascension Year C; Easter 7 Year C Lyrics: 1 Hail the day that sees him rise, hallelujah! taken from our wondering eyes, hallelujah! Christ, awhile to mortals given, hallelujah! reascends his native heaven. Hallelujah! 2 There the glorious triumph waits; hallelujah! lift your heads, eternal gates; hallelujah! Christ has conquered death and sin; hallelujah! take the King of glory in. Hallelujah! 3 Though returning to his throne, hallelujah! still he calls the world his own; hallelujah! him though highest heaven receives, hallelujah! still he loves the world he leaves. Hallelujah! 4 See, he lifts his hands above; hallelujah! see, he shows the prints of love, hallelujah! hark, his gracious lips bestow, hallelujah! blessing on the church below. Hallelujah! 5 Still for us he intercedes, hallelujah! his prevailing death he pleads, hallelujah! near himself prepares our place, hallelujah! first-fruits of our human race. Hallelujah! Used With Tune: ASCENSION (MONK)

Come, Holy Ghost

Author: John Cosin; Rabanus Maurus Appears in 242 hymnals Topics: Pentecost Year A; Pentecost Year B; Pentecost Year C; Trinity Sunday Year C; Proper 8 Year C; Proper 25 Year C First Line: Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire; thou the anointing Spirit art, who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart. 2 Thy blessed unction from above is comfort, life, and fire of love; enable with perpetual light the dullness of our blinded sight. 3 anoint and cheer our soiled face with the abundance of thy grace; keep far from foes, give peace at home: where thou art guide, no ill can come. 4 Teach us to know the Father, Son, and thee of both to be but One, that through the ages all along, this may be our endless song: Coda: Praise to God, to Christ the Word, and to the Spirit: all adored. Amen. Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS Text Sources: 9th-century Latin

Forth in Your Name, O Christ

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 349 hymnals Topics: Epiphany 5 Year A; Epiphany 6 Year A; Proper 16 Year A; Proper 18 Year B; Proper 22 Year C; Proper 28 Year C First Line: Forth in your name, O Christ, we go Lyrics: 1 Forth in your name, O Christ, we go, our daily labour to pursue, you, only you, resolved to know in all we think, or speak, or do. 2 The task your wisdom has assigned here let us cheerfully fulfil; in all our works your presence find, and prove your good and perfect will. 3 You may we set at our right hand, whose eyes our inmost secrets view, and labour on at your command and offer all our works to you. 4 Help us to bear your easy yoke, in every moment watch and pray, and still to things eternal look, and hasten to that glorious day. 5 Then with delight may we employ all that your bounteous grace has given, and run our earthly course with joy, and closely walk with you to heaven. Used With Tune: CANONBURY

Deck Yourself, My Soul, with Gladness

Author: Johann Franck; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 121 hymnals Topics: Christmas Eve Year A; Lent 3 Year A; Proper 23 Year B; Holy Thursday Year C; Thanksgiving Year C; Holy thursday Year ABC Lyrics: 1 Deck yourself, my soul, with gladness, leave the gloomy haunts of sadness, come into the daylight’s splendour, there with joy your praises render unto Christ, whose grace unbounded has this wondrous banquet founded; high o’er all the heavens reigning, yet to dwell with you is deigning. 2 Now I come before you lowly, filled with joy most deep and holy, as with trembling awe and wonder on your mighty works I ponder; how, by mystery surrounded, depth no one has ever sounded, none may dare to pierce unbidden secrets that with you are hidden. 3 Sun, which all my living brightens; Light, which heart and soul enlightens; Joy, most sweet and spirit freeing; Fount, the source of all my being; at your feet I cry, my Maker, let me be a fit partaker of this blessed food from heaven, for our good your glory given. 4 Jesus, bread of life, I pray you let me gladly here obey you; never to my hurt invited, be your love with love requited; from this banquet let me measure, God, how vast and deep its treasure; through the gifts you here now give me, as your guest in heaven receive me. Used With Tune: SCHMÜCKE DICH

Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round

Author: John White Chadwick Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 125 hymnals Topics: Proper 22 Year A; Proper 28 Year A; Easter 2 Year B; Proper 13 Year B; Proper 16 Year B; Easter 7 Year C Lyrics: 1 Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round of circling planets singing on their way, guide of the nations from the night profound into the glory of the perfect day: rule in our hearts, that we may live ever new, guided and strengthened and upheld by you. 2 We are your own, the children of your love, as dearly loved as your beloved Son; descend, O Holy Spirit, like a dove, and rule our hearts, that we may be as one: as one with you, to whom we ever tend; as one with Christ, our Saviour and our friend. 3 We would be one in hatred of all wrong, one in our love of all things kind and fair, one with the joy that finds a voice in song one with the grief that trembles into prayer, one in the power that makes your children free to follow truth, and thus in you to be. 4 O clothe us with your heavenly armour, Lord, your trusty shield and sword of love be ours; our inspiration be your constant word; we ask no victories that are not yours: give or withhold, let pain or pleasure fall; to know that we are serving you is all. Used With Tune: SONG 1

Angels, from the Realms of Glory

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 778 hymnals Topics: Year A Holy Name; Year A Epiphany; Year B Holy Name; Year B Epiphany; Year C Holy Name; Year C Epiphany Refrain First Line: Come and worship, come and worship Lyrics: 1 Angels, from the realms of glory, wing your flight o’er all the earth; As you sang creation’s story, now proclaim Messiah’s birth: Refrain: Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, give thanks and sing. 2 Shepherds, in the fields abiding, watching o’er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing, yonder shines the infant light: [Refrain] 3 Sages, leave your contemplations, brighter visions beam afar; Seek the great Desire of Nations, guided by Christ's natal star: [Refrain] 4 Saints, before the altar bending, watching long in hope and fear, Suddenly, our prayers attending, Christ beside you shall appear. [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

Ah, Holy Jesus

Author: Robert Bridges; Johann Heermann Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 141 hymnals Topics: Year A Good Friday; Year A Holy Saturday; Year B Good Friday; Year B Holy Saturday; Year C Good Friday; Year C Holy Saturday First Line: Ah, holy Jesus, how have you offended Lyrics: 1 Ah, holy Jesus, how have you offended, that mortal judgment has on you descended? By foes derided, by your own rejected, O most afflicted! 2 Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon you? It is my treason, Lord, that has slain you. And I, dear Jesus, I it was denied you; I crucified you. 3 For me, kind Jesus, was your incarnation, your mortal sorrow, and your life's oblation, Your death of anguish and your bitter passion, for my salvation. 4 Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay you, I do adore you and will ever pray you, Think on your pity and your love unswerving, not my deserving. Scripture: John 18:15-17 Used With Tune: HERZLIEBSTER JESU