Now Is the Healing Time Decreed

Now is the heal­ing time de­creed

For sins of heart

of word or deed

When we in hum­ble fear re­cord

The wrong that we have done the Lord.

Who

al­ways mer­ci­ful and good

Has borne so long our way­ward mood

Nor cut us off un­spar­ing­ly

In our so great ini­qui­ty.

Therefore with fast­ing and with pray­er

Our sec­ret sor­row we de­clare;

With all good striv­ing seek His face

And low­ly heart­ed plead for grace.

Cleanse us

O Lord

from ev­ery stain

Help us the meed of praise to gain

Till with the an­gels linked in love

Joyful we tread Thy courts above.

Father and Son and Spir­it blest

To Thee be ev­ery pray­er ad­dressed

Who art in three­fold name ad­ored

From age to age

the on­ly Lord.