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Third Sunday in Lent

Today, being the first Sunday of the month, it was Communion, which seems to allow me to pick a hymn for today which is less 'Lent' and more 'Passiontide'.  It is a very lovely Roman Catholic hymn, based in Isaiah 53, with the delightfully named tune Yellow Bittern, BPW No 229

See, Christ was wounded for our sake,
And bruised and beaten for our sin,
So by his suff'rings we are healed,
For God has laid our guilt on him.

Look on his face, come close to him-
See, you will find no beauty there:
Despised, rejected, who can tell
The grief and sorrow he must bear?

Like sheep that stray we leave God's path,
To choose our own and not his will;
Like sheep to slaughter he has gone
Obedient to his Father's will.

Cast out to die by those he loved,
Reviled by those he died to save,
See how sin's pride has sought his death,
See how sin's hate has made his grave.

For on his shoulders God has laid
The weight of sin that we should bear;
So by his passion we have peace,
Through his obedience and his prayer.

Brian Foley (1919-2000) © 1971 Faber Music Ltd, London.

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