Hymn suggestions for Monday 14 April 2025
Monday in Holy Week
Also see Holy Week – a Singing the Faith introduction
General
When, O God, our faith is tested (StF 643)
Isaiah 42: 1-9
Beatitude (Blessed are the poor in Spirit) (website only)
Be the light in my darkness (website only)
Come wounded healer, your sufferings reveal (StF 271)
God! When human bonds are broken (StF 649)
Who would ever have believed it? (StF 290)
You give rest to the weary (StF 657)
Psalm 36: 5-11
Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme
Jesu, lover of my soul (StF 355)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases (StF 66)
Your ceaseless, unexhausted love (StF 438)
Hebrews 9: 11-15
Christ triumphant, ever reigning (StF 319)
Jesus is King and I will extol him (StF 327)
Man of sorrows! What a name (StF 361)
Victim divine, thy grace we claim (StF 600)
John 12: 1-11
O God what offering shall I give (StF 562)
Take my life, and let is be (StF 566)
We'll walk with you (website only)
What shall I do my God to love, my Saviour, and the world’s, to praise? (StF 516)
A prayer that we may mirror God's goodness
Mary sings, “My soul magnifies the Lord”.
But how can I make God greater?
Lord of life, in the way I live, move and inhabit my being,
mirror in me your extravagant love and expansive goodness.
Enlarge my soul: to bear witness to human destruction, riven by unspeakable violence.
Enlarge my soul: to rail against relentless consumption, upending the gentle balance of the earth.
Enlarge my soul: to speak out against power-seeking policies, indifferent to hunger and dismissive of need.
May my spirit dance to the intricately woven melody of prayer, praise and protest.
Be ever greater within me, that my soul may magnify the Lord forever. Amen.
Helen Hollands, District Chair, East Anglia District
A prayer that we may be filled with God's presence - Alternative Prayer
Flood my heart with your presence, O God, my soul with your Spirit and my being with your light; that others looking upon my life may see only their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)