1. This is the threefold truth on which our faith depends;
and with this joyful cry worship begins and ends:

2. Long used by saints of old,
new-minted for our time,
our liturgies confess the hope we have in him:

3. On this we fix our minds as, kneeling side by side,
we take the bread and wine, take him, the Crucified:

4. By this we are upheld when doubt or grief assails
our Christian faith and love, and only grace avails:

5. This is the threefold truth which, if we hold it fast,
changes the world and us and brings us home at last: