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"The Man of Sorrows, Wounded for Our Sins " "The Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquities of us all" "Man shall come to the deep
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cart and God shall be exalted."-(Psalms).
A spear-tbrust-and a prophecy's made good, For, "to the deep heart" man has comae and blood And water issue in a saving flood, From God exalted on the Holy Hood. ;
Salvation, "wrought
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they have die with Thee, I will not deny Thee." crossed over the brook of Kedron Through all the stages of the woful way to Calvary they have accompanand watched Jesus in His agony ied Him in Spirit, counted His falls, they have heard the sound of th kiss that betrayed Him ; they hay, seen Mary and Simon and Veronica seen the savage arrest, the mocking and the women of Jerusalem come forward to act their comforting part, and the spitting and the plucking His beard, They have seen Wisdom but now the end is in sight, the clothed as a fool, and in the ferv- "great price" is to be paid, of which of ,Jesus was to say in satisfaction over ency of the making of the Way the Cross the unjust sentence, and the redeemed world, "It is consumthe howls by which the rabble pre mated.i" All through Lent we have ferred Barrabas to .Jesus, have call- considered the Passion, but Good ed from their hearts protestations of Friday is intended to startle us in loyalty to Him; in their acts of re- to a realisation of the truth of the paration they have made St. l'eter's most tremendous act that was eve words their own, "Though I should accomplished, that Jesus Christ, ed in the olive garden ;
the midst
of the earth," is the great thought which Holy Church puts before the
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minds of her children during the grace days of Holy Week, and culling upon us to ''attend and see," she directs our attention to the where the "green hill far away," great world -tragedy was enacted, of which the Evangelist considering it too great for words and despairing of describing it, wrote, "They crucified Him." F),itl.ful Catholics have during Lent considered all the details of the Pus sion. They have seen the Shepherd struck, and the scared flock scatter
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God and Man, died-"was crucified, dead and buried." "They crucified Him," said the Evangelist. Words
cannot express all that the death of Jesus means, but thought is, in a manner, infinite, and if we will do the bidding of Holy Church, which directs our attention to the Cross and to the Crucifix, even as Moses directed the looks of the Israelites to the brazen serpent, meditation will make us have part with St. Paul in the knowledge of " Jesus ('hrist and Him ('rucified," which was all he judged himself to know. "Oh if our crucified .Jesus would hut cotne into our hearts, how fully and how sufficiently learned we should he," says Thomas A Kempf& " Ah My Jesus, Thy death is my hope," cries out Sr. Alphonsus. Hope and contrition !moist awaken even in despairing souls, if they will look at the price that was paid by God's (Iwn Son. "He was offered because He willed it," and He willed it that "we might have life and might have it abundantly." Let us then descend the Mount striking our breasts, but with hope in our hearts, because we leave Jesus on the Cross our surety for pardon let us he lessoned into a large hope, for those who hope in God can never be disappointed, and if there is anything that the Cross of Christ should recall more than the rest, it is the hope of all that God wishes to do for us through the merits of the death of His Son. !
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FRA.
GIOVANNI.
"my Passion flowers" My Passion Flowers !
My
Passion
Flowers ! Oh, train them up with care ; Let crystal drops bedew their leaves, And give them purest air ! Ah think of all they cost My Heart From Bethlehem to the tomb, That they might bud and blossom here, And in My Kingdom bloom ! !
My
Passion Flowers Flowers
Passion
My
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The winds of March are rude ; And trying to exotic plants
Is April's changeful mood Then let the sunshine of thy love unfailing round them glow ; Their August hues will cheer thy Blatt
Er 'n in this vale below. My Passion Passion Flowers Flowers Their roots are in my Heart They draw their life from out those My
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veins Which health and strength impart; They give them all thou halt of
beet, give them radiant smiles, hopeful words their courage cheer, To vanquish Satan's wiles Oh
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Let
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Alas
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alas
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the world is cold,
Its breath is sharp and keen, And delicate my, tender plants, Albeit so fresh and green ; Then tend them for the Planter's
sake,
For Him who tendeth thee, And thou shalt have as thy reward. To reign along with Me.
A.A.