What? Already third Sunday in Lent! The music I use in the prelude would give some hint of that. The 10 o'clock prelude (the one ending at 10:00 a.m.) was the tune "Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed...? ...and did my sovereign die?" Quite a first-line title. The hymn starts with a question--kind of like today saying, "Wait, are you saying the head of this whole enterprise died?" Find it in blue hymnal #253. It's found in just about every hymnal today although written over 300 years ago, in 1707. Try to beat that! It's in the Jesus Passion and Death section of the hymnal, right before the resurrection section.
The offertory comes in on this theme, too. "When on the Cross the Savior hung." A Protestant Reformation hymn, Bach arranged it and got hung up on the word "hung." Sorry, I couldn't resist that play on words! The main motif is the descending three notes which gives a distinct droopiness to the sound.
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