Thursday of the second week of lent

​Date: Thursday, Mar 9
Contributor: Madisen Crow
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One of the things I have always looked forward to most about the Lenten season is the hymns we get to sing each year. Here is a link to a YouTube recording of the Portsmouth Cathedral choir singing a Lenten hymn, Forty Days and Forty Nights. The cathedral is located on the south coast of England. Here is a picture of the cathedral, courtesy of their website, and the lyrics to the hymn.
                                                                                              
 1. Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled.

2. Should not we thy sorrow share
and from worldly joys abstain,
fasting with unceasing prayer,
strong with thee to suffer pain?

3. Then if Satan on us press,
Jesus, Savior, hear our call!
Victor in the wilderness,
grant we may not faint or fall!

4. So shall we have peace divine:
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as ministered to thee.

5. Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
ever constant by thy side;
that with thee we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.

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