Easter week 2010 cont -

... continuing the "Look back at Calvary" posts that link to Easter 2009. :)

Thankful and astonished that He took the place

that I deserved ... and I am His forever because He did,

~ Jean Marie

April 9th, 2009 -

"He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities." - Isaiah 53:5

"O Sacred Head, now wounded"

1. O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,

Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;

O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was Thine!

Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. 

2. What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners’ gain;

Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.

Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ’Tis I deserve Thy place;

Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace. 

3. What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest friend,

For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end?

O make me Thine forever, and should I fainting be,

Lord, let me never, never outlive my love to Thee.