A Lenten Hymn
Lord, who throughout these forty days for us did fast and pray,
Teach us with you to mourn our sins, and close by you to stay.
As You with Satan did contend and did the victory win,
O give us strength in you to fight, in you to conquer sin.
As you bore hunger and your thirst, so teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live by your most holy Word.
And through the days of penitence, and through your Passion-tide,
Yes, evermore, in life and death, Jesus! With us abide.
Abide with us, that so, this life of suffering over-past,
An Easter of unending joy we may attain at last!
Claudia Hernaman
Happy Lenting.
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