Ashes by Tom Conry | Hymn for Ash Wednesday & Lent | Choir with Lyrics | Sunday 7pm Choir

To commemorate Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season, we present 'Ashes', a beautiful hymn by Tom Conry. We hope this song complements your Lenten journey.

Recorded live at St. Francis de Sales church in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for listening, please remember to like and subscribe to our channel if the Spirit moves you, and God bless

Song Title: Ashes
Artist(s): Tom Conry
Publisher: ©1978 OCP
Where to Purchase: https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/1392/...
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Lyrics:

We rise again from ashes, from the good we've failed to do.
We rise again from ashes, to create ourselves anew.
If all our world is ashes, then must our lives be true,
an offering of ashes, an offering to you.

We offer you our failures, we offer you attempts,
the gifts not fully given, the dreams not fully dreamt.
Give our stumblings direction, give our visions wider view,
an offering of ashes, an offering to you.

Then rise again from ashes, let healing come to pain,
though spring has turned to winter, and sunshine turned to rain.
The rain we'll use for growing, and create the world anew
from an offering of ashes, an offering to you.

Thanks be to the Father, who made us like himself.
Thanks be to his Son, who saved us by his death.
Thanks be to the Spirit who creates the world anew
from an offering of ashes, an offering to you.


There has been some controversy with this hymn. If you're interested, here are some good discussions on the liturgical appropriateness of this song for use in Mass as well as the revised lyrics released in 2019:

https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/d...

https://liturgyandlife.com/an-offerin...


Photo and Video Credits

Thank you to Motion Worship for their beautiful video background. Check out their amazing digital resources for all your Parish's multimedia needs! https://www.motionworship.com

Ashes Photos by Annika Gordon on Unsplash, Pro Church Media on Unsplash, Ahna Ziegler on Unsplash
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Ashes in form of cross - Image by Grzegorz Krupa from Pixabay
Ashermitwoch - Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay
School girl and Ashes - Lolcatss, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ashes to go - By Elena Tayem - CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Messe Des Cendres - By Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons - cc-by-sa-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Campfire Video - Video by Kelly Lacy from Pexels
Forest rain on leaf - Video by Aduri Prem Kumar from Pexels
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Forest rain - Video by Relaxing_Guru from Pixabay

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