Canticle for Shrovetide

 A Song of Humility
venite et revertamur ad dominum
Hosea 6:1-3

 

 

1              Come, let us return to the Lord; *
                                who has torn us and yet will heal us.

2              For he has wounded us, *
                                yet will bind up our wounds.

3              After two days, he will revive us, *
                                raising us up on the third day
                                that we may live in his presence.

4               Therefore, let us strive to know the Lord, *
                                for as surely as the sun rises, he will appear.

5              He will come to us like the rain; *
                                like the spring rains that water the earth.
                                                        

                Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: *
                                as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.