O Jesus, You Have Set Apart
O Jesus, you have set apart these forty days for abstinence and you decreed a lenten fast to heal and save our mind and heart. Now come, be present to your Church, be near and aid our penitence, as we bow down before you, Lord, and beg you wash away our sins. Remit and pardon with your grace misdeeds from which we turn aside; from future perils keep us safe by your most meek and gentle guard, That, filled with sorrow for our sins and cleansed by yearly penitence, we may press on to celebrate the Paschal Feast with worthy praise. Let all your works adore you, Lord, O merciful and Triune God. Renewed by pardon, let us sing a new song to your holy name. Amen. Tune: JENA, 8 8 8 8 Music: later form of melody by Melchior Vulpius or Mode IV, melody 81; Liber Hymnarius , Solesmes Text: Iesu, quadragenariæ , 10th c.
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