Eastertide // Week 13 // May 21-27

O love, how deep, how broad, how high!

It fills the heart with ecstasy,

that God, the Son of God, should take

our mortal form for mortals’ sake.

For us he was baptized and bore

his holy fast, and hungered sore.

For us temptation sharp he knew,

for us the tempter overthrow.

For us he prayed, for us he taught,

for us his daily works he wrought

by words and signs and actions thus

still seeking not himself, but us.

For us to wicked hands betrayed,

scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,

he bore the shameful cross and death,

for us a length gave up his breath.

Eternal glory to our God

for love so deep, so high, so broad;

the Trinity whom we adore

forever and forevermore.

Lyrics: Thomas a Kempis, 15th century (Latin), trans. Benjamin Webb, 1854

Music: Greg Yoder, 2013

Vocals: Mara Carlson, Monica Carlson, Matt Carlson