Our Hymn for April 2026 is This is Your Coronation

This is Your coronation –
Thorns pressed upon Your head;
No bright angelic heralds, but angry crowds instead;
Beneath Your throne of timber, and struggling with the load,
You go in cruel procession
On sorrow’s royal road.

Eternal judge on trial,
God’s law, by law denied;
Love’s justice is rejected
And truth is falsified.
We who have charged, condemned You,
Are sentenced by Your love;
Your blood pronounces pardon
As You are stretched above.

High Priest, you are anointed
With blood upon Your face,
And in this hour appointed
The offering for our race.
For weakness interceding;
For sin, You are the price;
For us Your prayer unceasing,
O living sacrifice.

Written by Sylvia G. Dunstan