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O sacred head, surrounded

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676; H. W. Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 O sacred head, surrounded by crown of piercing thorn! O bleeding head, so wounded, so shamed and put to scorn! Death's pallid hue comes o'er thee, the glow of life decays; yet angel-hosts adore thee, and tremble as they gaze. 2 Thy comeliness and vigour is withered up and gone, and in thy wasted figure I see death drawing on. O agony and dying! O love to sinners free! Jesu, all grace supplying, turn thou thy face on me. 3 In this thy bitter passion, good Shepherd, think of me with thy most sweet compassion, unworthy though I be: beneath thy cross abiding for ever would I rest, in thy dear love confiding, and with thy presence blest. Scripture: Isaiah 52:2 Used With Tune: PASSION CHORALE Text Sources: 14th-century Latin hymn

All ye who seek for sure relief

Author: Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 31 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 All ye who seek for sure relief in trouble and distress, whatever sorrow vex the mind, or guilt the soul oppress; 2 Jesus, who gave himself for you upon the cross to die, opens to you his sacred heart: O to that heart draw nigh. 3 Ye hear how kindly he invites; ye hear his words so blest: 'All ye that labour come to me, and I will give you rest.' 4 O Jesus, joy of saints on high, thou hope of sinners here, attracted by those loving words to thee we lift our prayer. 5 Wash thou our wounds in that dear blood which from thy heart doth flow; a new and contrite heart on all who cry to thee bestow. Scripture: 1 Peter 2:24 Used With Tune: ST BERNARD Text Sources: Latin, 18th century

Dance, then wherever you may be

Author: Sydney Carter, b. 1915 Meter: Irregular Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week First Line: I danced in the morning when the world was begun Lyrics: 1 I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun, and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth; at Bethlehem I had my birth. Refrain: Dance, then, wherever you may be; I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, and I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, and I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he. 2 I danced for the scribe and the pharisee, but they would not dance and they wouldn't follow me. I danced for the fishermen, for James and John; they came with me and the Dance went on: [Refrain] 3 I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame; the holy people said it was a shame. They whipped and they stripped and they hung me high, and they left me there on a cross to die: [Refrain] 4 I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black; it's hard to dance with the devil on your back. They buried my body and they thought I'd gone; but I am the Dance and I still go on: [Refrain] 5 They cut me down and I leapt up high; I am the life that'll never, never die; I'll live in you if you'll live in me; I am the Lord of the Dance," said he: [Refrain] Scripture: John 5:1-18 Used With Tune: LORD OF THE DANCE

O love divine, what hast thou done!

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 154 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 O Love divine, what hast thou done! The immortal God hath died for me! The Father’s co-eternal Son bore all my sins upon the tree; the immortal God for me hath died! My Lord, my Love is crucified: 2 Is crucified for me and you, to bring us rebels back to God; believe, believe the record true, we all are bought with Jesu’ blood, pardon for all flows from his side: my Lord, my Love, is crucified. 3 Then let us sit beneath the cross, and gladly catch the healing stream, all things for him account but loss, and give up all our hearts to him; of nothing think or speak beside: my Lord, my Love is crucified. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:2 Used With Tune: COLCHESTER

We sing the praise of him who died

Author: Thomas Kelly, 1769-1855 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 195 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 We sing the praise of him who died, of him who died upon the cross; the sinner's hope let men deride, for this we count the world but loss. 2 Inscribed upon the cross we see in shining letters, 'God is love'; he bears our sins upon the tree; he brings us mercy from above. 3 The cross! It takes our guilt away: it holds the fainting spirit up; it cheers with hope the gloomy day, and sweetens every bitter cup. 4 It makes the coward spirit brave, and nerves the feeble arm for fight; it takes its terror from the grave, and gilds the bed of death with light: 5 The balm of life, the cure of woe, the measure and the pledge of love, the sinner's refuge here below, the angels' theme in heaven above. Scripture: 1 John 4:8 Used With Tune: BOW BRICKHILL

It is a thing most wonderful

Author: W. Walsham How, 1823-1897 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 60 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 It is a thing most wonderful, almost too wonderful to be, that God's own Son should come from heaven, and die to save a child like me. 2 And yet I know that it is true: he chose a poor and humble lot, and wept and toiled and mourned and died for love of those who loved him not. 3 I cannot tell how he could love a child so weak and full of sin; his love must be most wonderful, if he could die my love to win. 4 I sometimes think about the cross, and shut my eyes, and try to see the cruel nails and crown of thorns, and Jesus crucified for me. 5 But even could I see him die, I could but see a little part of that great love which, like a fire, is always burning in his heart. 6 It is most wonderful to know his love for me so free and sure; but 'tis more wonderful to see my love for him so faint and poor. 7 And yet I want to love thee, Lord; O light the flame within my heart, and I will love thee more and more, until I see thee as thou art. Scripture: 1 John 3:2 Used With Tune: HERONGATE

Nature with open volume stands

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 148 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Nature with open volume stands to spread her Maker's praise abroad, and every labour of his hands shows something worthy of our God. 2 But in the grace that rescued man his brightest form of glory shines; here on the cross 'tis fairest drawn in precious blood and crimson lines. 3 Here his whole name appears complete; nor wit can guess, nor reason prove which of the letters best is writ, the power, the wisdom, or the love. 4 O the sweet wonders of that cross where God the Saviour loved and died; her noblest life my spirit draws from his dear wounds and bleeding side. 5 I would for ever speak his name in sounds to mortal ears unknown, with angels join to praise the Lamb, and worship at his Father's throne. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:19 Used With Tune: NÜRNBERG

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet

Author: Phineas Fletcher, 1582-1650 Meter: 10.10 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet, which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace. 2 Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease. 3 In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears; nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears. Scripture: Genesis 4:10 Used With Tune: SONG 46

Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle

Author: Venantius Fortunatus, 530-609; Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle, sing the ending of the fray, o'er the cross, the victor's trophy, sound the loud triumphant lay: tell how Christ, the world's Redeemer, as a victim won the day. 2 God in pity saw man fallen, shamed and sunk in misery, when he fell on death by tasting fruit of the forbidden tree: then another tree was chosen which the world from death should free. 3 Therefore when the appointed fullness of the holy time was come, he was sent who maketh all things forth from God's eternal home: thus he came to earth, incarnate, offspring of a maiden's womb. 4 Thirty years among us dwelling, now at length his hour fulfilled, born for this, he meets his Passion, for that this he freely willed, on the cross the Lamb is lifted, where his life-blood shall be spilled. 5 To the Trinity be glory, to the Father and the Son, with the co-eternal Spirit, ever Three and ever One, one in love and one in splendour, while unending ages run. Amen. Scripture: John 1:14 Used With Tune: PANGE LINGUA Text Sources: Latin

Name of all majesty

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 6.6.5.5.6.6.6.4 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Name of all majesty, fathomless mystery, King of the ages by angels adored; power and authority, splendour and dignity, bow to his mastery, Jesus is Lord! 2 Child of our destiny, God from eternity, love of the Father on sinners outpoured; see now what God has done sending his only Son, Christ the beloved One, Jesus is Lord! 3 Saviour of Calvary, costliest victory, darkness defeated and Eden restored; born as a man to die, nailed to a cross on high, cold in the grave to lie, Jesus is Lord! 4 Source of all sovereignty, light, immortality, life everlasting and heaven assured; so with the ransomed, we praise him eternally, Christ in his majesty, Jesus is Lord! Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:3 Used With Tune: MAJESTAS