2011-03-09 10:57:47

Forty days and forty nights


In the season of Lent we join Our Lord Jesus in his fast of 40 days . We devote ourselves to prayer, fast and almsgiving, so as to prepare ourselves spiritually for the great events of Holy Week and Easter .

Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings us a musical meditation on the Forty days and Nights of Lent : "..the text ..was written in the 19th century , but some of our Lenten hymns are much older . Lord Jesus , think on me is a 19th century translation of a 5th century Greek hymn, originally written by Synesius of Cyrene . The tune isn't quite that old, but it was widely sung in the 16th and 17th centuries when it was associated with a metrical psalm: I lift my heart to thee, My God and guide most just; Now suffer me to take no shame, for I in thee do trust..."

Listen to this programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick : RealAudioMP3







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