See, Christ was wounded for our sake
See, Christ was wounded for our sake. (William) Brian Foley* (1919-2000).
This was one of 14 hymns by Foley in New Catholic Hymnal (1971). It was chosen for WOV, and the ‘Companion’ to that book, Songs of the People of God (1982) quotes Foley as saying that his hymns were based ‘on theology rather than sentiment’ (p. 122). Certainly the dramatic pictorialism of stanza 2 discouraged any sentimental view of the cross:
Look on his face, come close to him -See, you will find no beauty there:Despised, rejected, who can tellThe grief and sorrow he must bear?
The theology is evident in the use of crucial quotations from the Bible and from prayer-books. Subsequent to WOV, the hymn was included in...
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