Sunday, March 18, 2018: FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Sunday, March 18, 2018
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Commemoration of Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem
Worship: 8 & 10:45 am
Jer. 31:31-34; Ps. 51:1-12; Heb. 5:5-11; John 12:20-33
Unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies,
it remains just a single
grain;
but if it dies, it bears much
fruit.
Gospel Acclamation for the Fifth Sunday in
Lent (John 12:24)
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain.
Laid in the earth, my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat arising green.
In the grave they laid him, Love by hatred slain;
Thinking that he would never wake again;
Raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen;
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
Forth he came at Easter like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen;
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
When our hearts are wintry, grieving or in pain,
Your touch can call us back to life again,
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been;
Love is come again like wheat arising green.
John MacLeod Campbell Crum (1872-1958)
- • Plant shallow containers with wheat grass to place on the table for Easter.
