Lord, who throughout these forty days,
For us did fast and pray,
Teach us to overcome our sins,
And close by you to stay.
As you with Satan did contend,
And did the vict'ry win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
In you to conquer sin.
As you did hunger and did thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and so to live
By your most holy word.
And through these days of penitence,
And through your Passiontide,
For evermore, in life and death,
O Lord! with us abide.
Of doubts and hope and pain,
An Easter of unending joy
We may at last attain!
(Claudia F. Hernaman)
And so it begins ... our forty days.
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