Commontide

For Quiet Confidence

O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide

Forty days and forty nights · Commontide

Forty days and forty nights

Particularly Appropriate During Lent

№ 30 · THE GESUALDO SIX · Liturgical Year — Lent · G. H. Smyttan, 1822-70

1.Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild,
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted and yet undefiled.

2.Sunbeams scorching all the day,
Chilly dewdrops nightly shed,
Prowling beasts about Thy way,
Stones Thy pillow, earth Thy bed.

3.Let us Thine endurance share,
And awhile from joys abstain,
With Thee watching unto prayer,
Strong with Thee to suffer pain.

4.And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
Thou, his vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint nor fail.

5.So shall we have peace divine,
Holier gladness ours shall be,
Round us too shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to Thee.

6.Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by Thy side,
That with Thee we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.