This Holy Week we will be introducing a new hymn to the Parish.  “Glory in the Cross” was written by Dan Schutte in the year 2000.  This tune has three different sets of verses for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter.  We have included a recording here for you to listen and sing-a-long at home so you will be able to participate in liturgies across our parishes.  We look forward to having the congregation sing-a-long and hearing your beautiful voices over Holy Week.

Verses for Holy Thursday

Let us bow in homage to the Lord of Life, who was broken to make us whole.
There is no greater love, as blessed as this: to lay down one’s life for a friend.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

To become a servant of the great and small, that all people may know God’s face.
Though his birth was divine, he knelt as a slave, to wash common dust from our feet.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

We become one body in the blood of Christ, from the great to the very least.
When we eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, we honor the death of the Lord.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

We are saints and sinners who are joined by faith here on earth and heav’n above.
Neither woman nor man, not servant or free, but one in the eyes of the Lord.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

Verses for Good Friday

Let us tell the story of the cross of Christ and the pow’r of his saving love.
Like a lamb he was slain; he carried our shame, to show us the mercy of God.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

In the great compassion of the heart of Christ, God has walked in our hopes and fears.
He was mocked and betrayed, deserted by friends, and banished to die among thieves.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

We behold the Maker of the sun and stars as he hangs on the throne of grace.
As we share in his pain, his sorrow and shame, our hearts will be tested in fire.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

Verses for Easter Sunday

Let us bow in homage to the Lord of Life, who was broken to make us whole.
There is no greater love, as blessed as this: to lay down one’s life for a friend.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

He will come in glory to receive our hearts at the dawn of the lasting day.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead shall be raised, and death shall defeat us no more.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

God has wed creation on the tree of hope where the darkness becomes our light.
Let us join in the dance of heaven and earth, give thanks for the goodness of God.
Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

By Shanti Michael