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Second Sunday of Lent
The songs for the Second Sunday of Lent need to do two things. We must do our best to help our congregations experience the mountaintop. Through the words and the music (what is written, and how we play/sing it), we can give people a sense of God’s great loving promise, and Christ’s transcendent light.
But we cannot lull people into a complacent sense of “isn’t this inspiring.” We cannot let ourselves or our congregations build a tent up there or tarry long…
Hymn for Second Sunday of Lent, Year C
This new hymn text for the Second Sunday of Lent, Year C (the Transfiguration), is an attempt to capture what I see as the throughline of the day’s readings: God keeps promises, and God’s ultimate promise is that we shall stand in God’s presence, seeing God face to face, and this encounter will sanctify us.