Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Return with all your heart

Joel 2:12–17 
Ash Wednesday 

Return to me with all your heart: 
return to me, calls Holy One.

Blow the trumpet, ring the bells,
call the people together:
call the older folk;
call the children – infants, teens
and all between;
call those preparing celebrations,
call those with sorrow and grief:

Return to me with all your heart: 
return to me, calls Holy One.

Call priests and ministers who weep
for their people, pleading with Holy One 
to remember though we have forgotten;
call prophets who see the world's rejection
of the ways of Wisdom and cry
with Holy One: return! 

Return to me with all your heart: 
return to me, calls Holy One. 

Call the people to fast and pray,
to change hearts and minds;
call the people, for Holy One is slow
to anger, and faithful in love! 
Call the people: turn back! 

Return to me with all your heart: 
return to me, calls Holy One. 

Return to me with all your heart: 
return to me, calls Holy One. 

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