FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
- Greeting & Collect of the Day
- First Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34
- Gospel: John 12:20-33
- Sermon – Karen McBride
- Hymn: Take Up Your Cross the Saviour Said (Common Praise #431 – words below)
- Prayers of the People
- The Lord’s Prayer (sung)
Take Up Your Cross, the Saviour Said
Take up your cross, the Saviour said, if you would my disciple be;
Deny yourself, the world forsake, and humbly follow after me.
Take up your cros; let not its weight fill your weak soul with vain alarm;
His strength shall bear your spirit up, and brace your heart, and nerve your arm.
Take up your cross, nor heed the shame, and let your foolish pride be still;
Your Lord for you endured to die upon a cross, on Calvary’s hill.
Take up your cross, then, in his strength, and calmly every danger brave:
‘twill guide you to a better home and lead to victory o’er the grave.
Take up your cross and follow Christ, nor think till death to lay it down;
For only those who bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown.
