RESPONSE:

Father, I put my life in your hands.

VERSE 1:

In you, O Lord, I take refuge; 

let me never be put to shame. 

Into your hands I commend my spirit; 

you will redeem me, faithful God.

RESPONSE:

Father, I put my life in your hands.

VERSE 2:

For all my foes reproach me, 

neighbors laugh and friends stand off. 

I am forgotten like dead unremembered; 

I am like a dish cast down.

RESPONSE:

Father, I put my life in your hands.

VERSE 3:

But my trust is in you, O Lord; I say, 

“You are my God.” 

Into your hands I place my future; 

from the clutch of foes you rescue me.

RESPONSE:

Father, I put my life in your hands.

VERSE 4:

Let your face shine on your servant; 

O save me in your love. 

Be stouthearted, and come, take courage, 

all you who now hope in the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, 

King of endless glory

Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 

Because of this, God greatly exalted him 

and bestowed on him 

the name which is above every other name.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, 

King of endless glory

Kyrie, kyrie, eleison!

O Come, let us adore!

REFRAIN:

My people, what have I done? 

How have I grieved you? 

Answer me! Answer me!

VERSE 1:

I led you out of the land of Egypt; 

You have prepared a Cross for your Savior. 

I led you out of the desert, 

and fed you with manna 

and brought you to a land of plenty. 

You have prepared a Cross for your Savior.

REFRAIN:

My people, what have I done? 

How have I grieved you? 

Answer me! Answer me!

VERSE 2:

What more should I have done? 

For you, that I have not done? 

Indeed, I planted you 

as my most beautiful vine, 

and you have turned very bitter for me. 

In my thirst you gave me vinegar to drink, 

and with a lance you pierced my side.

REFRAIN:

My people, what have I done? 

How have I grieved you? 

Answer me! Answer me!

VERSE 3:

I scourged Egypt, for your sake, 

with its first born sons; 

You scourged me and handed me over. 

I led you through the Red Sea, 

and you handed me over to the chief priests. 

I opened the sea before you. 

And you opened my side with a lance.

REFRAIN:

My people, what have I done? 

How have I grieved you? 

Answer me! Answer me!

VERSE 4:

I gave you living water from the rock to drink, and for drink you gave me gall and vinegar. 

I put in your hand a royal scepter, 

and you put on my head a crown of thorns. 

I exalted you with great power, 

and you hung me on the scaffold of the Cross.

REFRAIN:

My people, what have I done? 

How have I grieved you? 

Answer me! Answer me!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 1:
O God, my God, 

why have you abandoned me? 

Why have you forsaken me? 

Answer me, O God!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 2:
I am despised, 

rejected by my people. 

How could they forget me? 

Answer me, O God!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 3:
My heart is failing. 

They pierce my hands and feet. 

Why have you abandoned me? 
Answer me, O God!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 4:
The jaws of death 

are closing in upon me. 

The wicked laugh and taunt me. 

Answer me, O God!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 5:
You are enthroned 

in the holy place. 

In you our fathers trusted. 

Answer me, O God!

REFRAIN:

Behold the wood of the cross, 

on which hung the Savior of the world. 

O come, O come, 
let us worship, let us adore.

VERSE 1:

Though I’m pressed on every side,
I still know I’m not abandoned.
Though the ways of God aren’t mine,
I still know I’m not forsaken.

REFRAIN:

Take all the breath in my lungs, 
you’ll hear the rocks crying glory to God.
Take everything that I’ve got,
and you’ll see two empty hands lifted up.
You may silence me,
but the cross forever speaks.

VERSE 2:

Though I’m filled with questions why,
I still know I’m not abandoned.
Though I suffer in this life, 
I still know I’m not forsaken.

REFRAIN:

Take all the breath in my lungs, 
you’ll hear the rocks crying glory to God.
Take everything that I’ve got,
and you’ll see two empty hands lifted up.
You may silence me,
but the cross forever speaks.

BRIDGE 1:

Forgiveness for 
my enemies. 
Mercy and grace,
I am set free.

BRIDGE 2:

The price of love 
is paid in full.
His blood poured out 
how beautiful.

REFRAIN:

Take all the breath in my lungs, 
you’ll hear the rocks crying glory to God.
Take everything that I’ve got,
and you’ll see two empty hands lifted up.
You may silence me,

CODA:

you may silence me,
you may silence me,
but the cross forever speaks.

REFRAIN:

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me. 

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me.

VERSE 1:

Whoever wishes to come after me 

must deny himself; 

whoever wishes to come after me 

must take up his cross and follow me.

REFRAIN:

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me. 

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me.

VERSE 2:

Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, 

whoever loses his life for my sake 

will find it.

REFRAIN:

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me. 

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me.

VERSE 3:

Why gain the whole world but lose your soul? 

Why gain the whole world 

but lose your soul?

REFRAIN:

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me. 

Take up your cross, take up your cross, 

take up your cross and follow me.

VERSE 1:

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ 

who redeems us with his blood. 

Let us tell the story of the Cross of Christ 

and the pow’r of his saving love. 

Like a lamb he was slain; 

he carried our shame, 

to show us the mercy of God. 

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ 

and the triumph of God’s great love.

VERSE 2:

Let us bring our burdens 

to the cross of Christ 

who has known our sorrow and tears. 

In the great compassion 

of the heart of Christ, 

God has walked in our hopes and fears. 

He was mocked and betrayed, 

deserted by friends, 

and banished to die among thieves. 

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ 

and the triumph of God’s great love.

VERSE 3:

Let us kneel in homage 

at the cross of Christ 

where we see God’s human face. 

We behold the Maker of the sun and stars 

as he hangs on the throne of grace. 

As we share in his pain, 

his sorrow and shame, 

our hearts will be tested in fire. 

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ 

and the triumph of God’s great love.

Agnus Dei, 

qui tollis peccáta mundi: 

miserére nobis. 

Agnus Dei, 

qui tollis peccáta mundi: 

miserére nobis. 

Agnus Dei, 

qui tollis peccáta mundi: 

dona nobis pacem.

VERSE 1:

Were you there 

when they crucified my Lord? 

Were you there 

when they crucified my Lord? 

Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, 

tremble, tremble. 

Were you there 

when they crucified my Lord?

VERSE 2:

Were you there 

when they nailed him to the tree? 

Were you there 

when they nailed him to the tree? 

Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, 

tremble, tremble. 

Were you there 

when they nailed him to the tree?

VERSE 3:

Were you there 

when they laid him in the tomb? 

Were you there 

when they laid him in the tomb? 

Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, 

tremble, tremble. 

Were you there 

when they laid him in the tomb?

VERSE 1:

Behold the cross 

on which was hung 

life’s very Lord, 

God’s only Son; 

Mary’s own babe, 

so cold and so still, 

helpless before her 

on Calvary hill.

VERSE 2:

Nails in his hands, 

nails in his feet, 

a traitor kiss 

upon his cheek; 

and his pierced heart, 

now broken in two, 

love crucified 

for me and for you.

VERSE 3:

Eyes that won’t see, 

ears that won’t hear, 

lips that deny 

the friend once so dear; 

slowly he turns 

and captures your eye, 

then passes on 

to Calv’ry to die.

VERSE 4:

Behold the cross 

of Christ in our midst: 

all those who bear 

his wounds in their flesh. 

Suff’ring for crimes 

of mercy and peace, 

signs of the kingdom 

on Calvary street.

VERSE 5:

Behold the cross 

on which was hung 

life’s very Lord, 

God’s only Son; 

Mary’s own babe, 

so cold and so still, 

helpless before her 

on Calvary hill.