Lord of the cross of shame
Lord of the cross of shame. Michael Saward* (1932-2015).
Like ‘Christ triumphant, ever reigning’*, but a year earlier (April 1963), this was written at Edgware for a church Youth Fellowship birthday. It was one of the author’s own favourites; like the more famous text it was launched with a traditional (but 20th-century) tune, in this case DOWN AMPNEY by Ralph Vaughan Williams*. It was provided by Michael Baughen* with a new one for Youth Praise 1 (1966), named CROSS OF SHAME. Baughen speaks highly of the hymn: ‘It was in the early creativity of the Youth Praise group and I suppose I was inspired by the words …’.
It is currently the third most popular of Saward’s hymns, published in some...
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