The Season of Lent – Music – 59.1

Congregational Song in Lent

A change in liturgical seasons creates opportunities to use congregational responses unique to the season and to repeat liturgical responses set to new and different music. Following are suggestions for use during the Season of Lent.

Confession

• As the Deer GTG 626
• Change My Heart, O God GTG 695
• Come, Bring Your Burdens to God GTG 851
• Everyone Who Longs for the Boundless Love of God GTG 849
• Examíname, oh Dios / Search and Know Me, O My God SSS 510
• Forgive Us, Lord / Perdón, Señor GTG 431
• God, Be Merciful to Me / Dios, ten compasión de mí (stanza 1) SSS 509
• Here on Jesus Christ I Will Stand / Kwake Yesu Nasimama GTG 832
• Hoy perdóname / Mercy, Lord, We Pray SSS 512 
• Jesus Knows the Inmost Heart GTG 427
• Jesus, Savior, Lord, Now to You I Come / Saranam, saranam (refrain; stanzas varied) GTG 789 
• Just a Closer Walk with Thee (refrain; stanzas varied) GTG 835 
• My Soul Is at Rest GTG 843
• Search Me, O God GTG 426
• Yo tengo sed de Dios / My Soul Thirsts for God SSS 592 

Pardon

• I Will Trust in the Lord AAHH 391
• Mayenziwe AAHH 666
• Peace of God Be with You GTG 448 
• Son of God, Whose Heart Is Peace (stanza 1) GTG 425 

Prayer for Illumination 

• Over My Head AAHH 169
• Prepare Our Hearts, O God / Prepáranos, Señor SSS 560
• Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet GTG 458
• To the Hills I Lift My Eyes GTG 845
• To You, O Lord / A ti, Señor SSS 575

Prayers of the People

• Come by Here, My Lord AAHH 438
• Fix Me, Jesus AAHH 436
• I Love the Lord, Who Heard My Cry GTG 799, AAHH 395
• In Silence My Soul Thirsts GTG 790
• Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying GTG 469, SSS 577
• Shepherd Me, O God GTG 473 
• We’ve Come This Far by Faith AAHH 412, GTG 656

Anthems for Children’s Choirs in Lent and Holy Week

• “Little Grey Donkey,” Natalie Sleeth, CGA, uni, keybd, ob, sandblock, woodblock (E)
• “Meditation for Lent,” Michael Bedford, AF, uni or 2 pt, keybd (E)
• “Forty Days of Lent,” Brian Childers, CGA, uni, pno, opt 2-oct hb or hc (E)
• “A Lenten Love Song,” Helen Kemp, CGA, uni, keybd, opt narr introduction (MA)
• “Look, Now, Your King Is Coming,” Deborah Govenor, BP, 2 pt, pno (MA)
• “Sing Glad Hosannas,” Mark Patterson, CGA, uni, pno, opt hb or hc (3 oct) (MA)
• “Antiphonal Hosanna,” G. Alan Smith, HOPE, 2 equal voices or 2 choirs, pno (ME)

Anthems for Youth Choirs in Lent

• “I Saw the Cross of Jesus,” Victor Johnson, CGA, SATB, pno (MA)
• “When Jesus Wept,” Peter Paul Olejar, MSM, 3 pt mx, pno (E)
• “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say,” John Helgen, CGA, SAB, pno (M)
• “To Your Table We Come,” Stan Pethel, CGA, SATB, pno (M)

Handbell Music in Lent

• “Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door,” arr. Anna Laura Page, 3–5 oct, ALF, 16479, Level 2
• “Take My Life and Let It Be,” arr. Sandra Eithun, 3–5 oct, opt 3–5 oct hc, HOPE, 2710, Level 3
• “What Wondrous Love Is This,” arr. Cynthia Dobrinski, 3–5 oct, opt 2 oct hc or C inst, HOPE, 1848, Level 3
• “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” arr. Raney/Sherman, 3–6 oct, opt 3 oct hc, opt C inst or singing, HOPE, 2356, Level 3
• “Yes, Jesus Loves Me,” arr. Michael Akers, 2–3 oct, LOR, 20/1303L, Level 2
• “Yesu Ananipenda (Jesus Loves Me),” arr. Cathy Moklebust, 3–5 oct, djembe, maracas, shekere, agogo bells, opt 2 oct hc, CGA, CGB981, Level 3+
• “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,” arr. Julie Stitt, 3–6 oct, LOR, AG36031, Level 4
• “My Song Is Love Unknown,” arr. Cathy Moklebust, 3–5 oct, opt C inst, opt 3–7 oct hc, CGA, CGB977
• “All Glory, Laud and Honor,” arr. Lloyd Larson, 3–5 oct, HOPE, 2071, Level 3
• “I Sing the Mighty Power of God (Hosanna, Loud Hosanna),” arr. Cynthia Dobrinski, 3–5 oct, HOPE, 1614
• “In Remembrance of Me,” arr. Jason Krug, 3–6 oct, opt 2 oct hc, HOPE, 2902, Level 2+
• “Go to Dark Gethsemane” (from “Chime In—Lent and Easter”), arr. John Behnke, 2–3 oct hc, AGEHR, AG23036, Level 1
• “Were You There?” arr. Jill Fedon, 2–5 oct, opt 3–5 hc, AGEHR, AG35338, Level 1+