Something for the weekend. No hymn seems to me more appopriate for a Palm Sunday weekend than Abide With Me, a song that reminds us that we all must die and that death is only a new glorious beginning for those who die in Christ. The song was written in a magnificent act of faith by Henry Lyte, a suuporter of the Oxford Movement, as he lay dying of tuberculosis in 1847.
In the movie A Bridge Too Far, wounded survivors of the British First Airborne Division are shown singing the song as they await capture by the Wehrmacht at the conclusion of Operation Market-Garden.
Donald R. McClarey
Paul Zummo
