ritualeromanumtheroma nritual - Archbishop Lefebvre

Now shines the cross's mystery;
Upon it Life did death endure,
And yet by death did life procure.
2. Who, wounded with a direful spear,
Did, purposely to wash us clear
From stain of sin, pour out a flood
Of precious water mixed with blood.
3. That which the prophet-king of old
Has in mysterious verse foretold,
Is now accomplished, while we see
God ruling nations from a tree.
4. O lovely and refulgent tree,
Adorned with purpled majesty;
Culled from a worthy stock to bear
Those limbs which sanctified were.
5. Blest tree, whose happy branches bore
The wealth that did the world restore;
The beam that did that body weigh
Which raised up hell's expected prey.
6. Hail, cross, of hopes the most sublime!
Now in this mournful passion time, *
Improve religious souls in grace.
The sins of criminals efface.
7. Blest Trinity, salvation's spring,
May every soul your praises sing;
To those you grant a conquest by
The holy cross, rewards apply. Amen.
* Outside of passiontime this line reads: Now in your glorious reign in time. In paschaltime it reads: Which bears the
joys of paschaltime.
Hymn
1. At the cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.
2. Through her heart, His sorrows sharing,
All His bitter anguish bearing,
Now at length the sword had passed.
3. Oh, how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother highly blest
Of the sole-begotten One.
4. Christ above in torment hangs;
She beneath beholds the pangs