Stuck in Quarantine? Find Comfort in God's Words

Are you stuck in quarantine? If you want to find comfort in God's words, click here. As Davina McDonald, the author of that blog entry, says, "God's Word speaks to us wherever we are."

Christ Arose

Today is Easter, the Day of Resurrection. Here are the words -- the three stanzas and the refrain -- of the hymn "Up from the Grave He Arose" (1874) by Robert Lowry. Happy Easter!

The Guard at the Tomb of Jesus

Today is Holy Saturday, the Day of Silence. The quotations below from Robert Lowry are the three stanzas of his hymn "Up from the Grave He Arose" (1874).

     Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, 'After three days I will rise again.' Command therefore that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead': so the last error shall be worse than the first."

--The Bible: Matthew 27:62-64 (King James Version)

Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can." So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

--The Bible: Matthew 27:65-66 (King James Version)

Good Friday: Jesus, Remember Me

     One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." And he said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

--The Bible: Luke 23:39-43 (English Standard Version)

(King James Version)

Tuesday in Holy Week

TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
by Christina Rossetti

By Thy long-drawn anguish to atone,
Jesus Christ, show mercy on Thine own:
Jesus Christ, show mercy and atone
Not for other sake except Thine own.

Thou Who thirsting on the Cross didst see
All mankind and all I love and me,
Still from Heaven look down in love and see
All mankind and all I love and me.


Source: Verses (1893) by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

To read an article about English poet Christina Rossetti, click here.

Palm Sunday Hymn

PALM SUNDAY HYMN
by George Klingle

Looking back across the years, O Christ, we see Thee go
'Midst hosannas of the throngs passing to and fro,
'Midst the adoration cries ringing on Thy way --
Voices of the wavering ones lifted for a day.

We hosannas echo on, O Christ, and lift to Thee
Songs of adoration too, and bend adoring knee,
But, though faltering and weak, may we not forget
Like the throngs of long ago, the Heart that loveth yet.

Help us to follow all the way, O Christ, nor turn aside.
'Midst Thy shadows, or Thy light, there would we abide;
Though the world hath scarred Thy name, mark it on our breast --
Sweetest name in all the world that ever Love confessed.


Source: Christ in Poetry (1952), an anthology compiled and edited by Thomas Curtis Clark and Hazel Davis Clark

Source of this poem of Jesus Christ:
The Bible (King James Version)

A Bit of Poetry about April

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daisies at our feet.
     --from "The Garden Year" by Sara Coleridge