Hymn - "A Woman Came Who Did Not Count the Cost"

Communion Hymn - "A Woman Came Who Did Not Count the Cost"
camcorded live 22 March 2009, 4th Sunday in Lent

1) A woman came who did not count the cost of doing what she could,
She broke an alabaster flask, and sweetness spilled on Jesus' head.
O God, you are the anointing one who does not count your passion's cost,
and when we gather you will spill the sweetness of your grace on us.

2) Some only saw what she had spent, "Why such a waste with poor to feed?"
They served the poor well with their tongues, but she had done a lovely deed.
O God, you are the anointing one who does not count your passion's cost,
and when we gather you will spill the sweetness of your grace on us.

3) You give as she, surprisingly, you give with beauty as she gave,
you give as she, not holding back, you make us Christ-like with your love.
O God, you are the anointing one who does not count your passion's cost,
and when we gather you will spill the sweetness of your grace on us.

Tune: "Wexford Carol" (Irish folk melody)
Text: Richard D. Leach, 1990 (Mark 14:3-9)

The Redeemer Congregation and Choir
The parish choir of the Church of the Redeemer
Wayne Burcham-Gulotta,
Music Director/Organist

J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Opus 701, 1918, 3/49

Ernest M. Skinner bought out Steere in 1920 and Skinner ran Steere as a separate company for about a year. Then they brought it into the fold as a separate Skinner factory. For a time organs being built there had the Skinner name but were essentially Steere organs. Much of the great Skinner at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA is Steere (1915 major enlargement of 1902 Hutchings). Final expansion to the Skinner instrument at Yale we know today was the 1928-1929 rebuild.

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