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Create in Me a Clean Heart

Meter: Irregular Appears in 32 hymnals First Line: Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right spirit within me

Author: Ronald F. Krisman, b. 1946 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Ash Wednesday First Line: Have mercy on me, O God Refrain First Line: Parce Domine (Spare us gracious Lord) Scripture: Psalm 51:3-6 Used With Tune: PARCE DOMINE Text Sources: Verses The Revised Grail Psalms

Change My Heart, O God

Author: Eddie Espinosa Meter: Irregular Appears in 21 hymnals

Dust and Ashes Touch Our Face

Author: Brian Wren Meter: Irregular Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Ash Wednesday; Ash Wednesday Year ABC Refrain First Line: Take us by the hand and lead us Lyrics: 1 Dust and ashes touch our face, mark our failure and our falling. Holy Spirit, come, walk with us tomorrow, take us as disciples, washed and wakened by your calling. [Refrain:] Take us by the hand and lead us, lead us through the desert sands, bring us living water, Holy Spirit, come. 2 Dust and ashes soil our hands -- greed of market, pride of nation. Holy Spirit, come, walk with us tomorrow, as we pray and struggle through the meshes of oppression. [Refrain] 3 Dust and ashes choke our tongue in the wasteland of depression. Holy Spirit, come, walk with us tomorrow. through all gloom and grieving to the paths of resurrection. [Refrain] Used With Tune: NEWELL

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

Author: Claudia F. Hernaman Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 87 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Ash Wednesday; Christian Year Ash Wednesday Lyrics: 1 Lord, who throughout these forty days for us didst fast and pray, teach us with thee to mourn our sins and close by thee to stay. 2 As thou with Satan didst contend, and didst the victory win, O give us strength in thee to fight, in thee to conquer sin. 3 As thou didst hunger bear, and thirst, so teach us, gracious Lord, to die to self, and chiefly live by thy most holy word. 4 And through these days of penitence, and through thy passiontide, yea, evermore in life and death, Jesus, with us abide. 5 Abide with us, that so, this life of suffering over past, an Easter of unending joy we may attain at last. Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11 Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

Lord, teach us how to pray aright

Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 225 hymnals Topics: Ash Wednesday Lyrics: 1 Lord, teach us how to pray aright with reverence and with fear; though dust and ashes in thy sight, we may, we must, draw near. 2 We perish if we cease from prayer: O grant us power to pray; and, when to meet thee we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way. 3 God of all grace, we bring to thee a broken, contrite heart; give what thine eye delights to see, truth in the inward part; 4 Faith in the only sacrifice that can for sin atone, to cast our hopes, to fix our eyes, on Christ, on Christ alone; 5 Patience to watch and wait and weep, though mercy long delay; courage our fainting souls to keep, and trust thee though thou slay. 6 Give these, and then thy will be done; thus, strengthened with all might, we, through thy Spirit and thy Son, shall pray, and pray aright. Scripture: 1 Peter 4:10 Used With Tune: ST HUGH

My Song Is Love Unknown

Author: Samuel Crossman Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 129 hymnals

What Wondrous Love Is This

Author: Claude Rozier Meter: 12.9.12.9 Appears in 256 hymnals Topics: Ash Wednesday Year ABC First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul (Ô merveilleux amour pour ma vie) Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul, to bear the dreadful curse for my soul. 2 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, that caused the Lord of life to lay aside his crown for my soul, for my soul, to lay aside his crown for my soul. 3 To God and to the Lamb, I will sing, I will sing, to God and to the Lamb, I will sing: to God and to the Lamb who is the great I AM, while millions join the theme I will sing, I will sing; while millions join the theme I will sing. 4 And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on, and when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on; and when from death I’m free, I’ll sing and joyful be, and through eternity I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on; And through eternity I’ll sing on. Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: American folk hymn, ca. 1811

The Glory of These Forty Days

Author: St. Gregory the Great, ca. 540-604; Maurice F. Bell, 1862-1947 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Ash Wednesday Scripture: 2 Kings 2:11 Used With Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR Text Sources: Tr.: English Hymnal, 1906

Psalm 51: Oh Dios, Crea en Mí (Create in Me)

Author: Eleazar Cortés, b. 1947 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Ash Wednesday; Ash Wednesday; Ash Wednesday First Line: Piedad de mí, Señor (Have mercy on me, O God) Refrain First Line: O Dios, crea en mí (Create in me) Scripture: Psalm 51:3-4 Used With Tune: [Have mercy on me, O God]