Would you believe we sang this in… school? Our seventh-grade chorus Spring Concert included it.
This hymn, commemorating the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, goes back to 1250 A.D. We’ll hear the bells of St. Francis play it today.
Tag: O Sacred Head Now Wounded
By Request, ‘O Sacred Head Now Wounded’
Requested by Phoebe–and there are several versions available. I chose this one because it’s the one my 7th-grade class sang in our Easter concert. Can you imagine that? ACLU lawyers would have conniptions…
So here it is, O Sacred Head Now Wounded: melody by Bach, sung by the Altar of Praise Chorale.
‘O Sacred Head’ (for Good Friday)
This hymn goes well back into the Middle Ages, with Bach putting the finishing touches on the melody as we know it today: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded. Sung by the Altar of Praise Chorale.
Our seventh-grade class sang this as part of our Easter concert, back when America was still America.
‘O Sacred Head, Now Wounded’
This is Good Friday, and this hymn, by Johann Sebastian Bach, reminds us why we mark this day–O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, sung by the choir at Kings College, Cambridge.
He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities.
This is Jesus Christ the Son of God, Our Lord.
Hymn, ‘O Sacred Head Now Wounded’
A reader suggested this last night, so I saved it for this morning: O Sacred Head Now Wounded, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
This was another one we sang in seventh-grade chorus. Let me see if I can remember the words.
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 tho’ despised and gory, I’d joy to call thee mine…