VeraMaria Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Please read this, it's beautiful. [b]Stabat Mater[/b] [i]At, the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, His sorrow sharing, all His bitter anguish bearing, now at length the sword has passed. O how sad and sore distressed was that Mother, highly blest, of the sole-begotten One. Christ above in torment hangs, she beneath beholds the pangs of her dying glorious Son. Is there one who would not weep, whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ's dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain from partaking in her pain, in that Mother's pain untold? Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, she beheld her tender Child All with scourges rent: For the sins of His own nation, saw Him hang in desolation, Till His spirit forth He sent. O thou Mother! fount of love! Touch my spirit from above, make my heart with thine accord: Make me feel as thou hast felt; make my soul to glow and melt with the love of Christ my Lord. Holy Mother! pierce me through, in my heart each wound renew of my Savior crucified: Let me share with thee His pain, who for all my sins was slain, who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, mourning Him who mourned for me, all the days that I may live: By the Cross with thee to stay, there with thee to weep and pray, is all I ask of the to give. Virgin of all virgins blest!, Listen to my fond request: let me share thy grief divine; Let me, to my latest breath, in my body bear the death of that dying Son of thine. Wounded with His every wound, steep my soul till it hath swooned, in His very Blood away; Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, lest in flames I burn and die, in His awful Judgment Day. Christ, when Thou shalt call me hence, by Thy Mother my defense, by Thy Cross my victory; While my body here decays, may my soul Thy goodness praise, safe in paradise with Thee. Amen.[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeraMaria Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 [img]http://www.port-of-arts.com/michelangelo-rome-pieta.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeraMaria Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 (edited) [img]http://www.thezreview.co.uk/images3/passionofthechrist14.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.thepassionofthechrist.com/gallery/images/03.jpg[/img] Edited April 9, 2004 by VeraMaria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 that prayer is used for the Stations.. very beautiful.... a friend and i taught the elementary religous ed kids at our church that song during their Lenten retreat... quite special! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 awesome pics VeraMaria, where'd u get them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Yeah where did you get them. I have been searching all over google for that pic of Mary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeraMaria Posted April 9, 2004 Author Share Posted April 9, 2004 [quote name='Iacobus' date='Apr 9 2004, 06:26 PM'] Yeah where did you get them. I have been searching all over google for that pic of Mary. [/quote] hehehe...i have ways.... I googled "The Passion of the Christ gallery" and voila! the first site had it...[url="http://romanticmovies.about.com/library/weekly/blthepassionpicsa.htm"]TPOTC[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 AWESOME!! thanks a bunch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master_alterserver Posted April 10, 2004 Share Posted April 10, 2004 Stabat Mater is the catchiest tune I've heard, simple and beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 bump.. because it is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. please join me reflect on it. there have been like 4 postings of this hymn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I love that hymn. And I especially love it used during Stations of the Cross. It's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I like that poem as set to music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (its my fave). Alessandro Scarlatti has a decent version as well. The poem is often attributed to Jacapone da Todi, but I've read the majority of the poems that we know Jacapone wrote for sure, and I'm just not feeling it. The style is so different from anything of his I've ever read. I'd like to know who really composed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForHimAlone Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b64/singinkat43/SorrowfulMary.jpg[/img] [img]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b64/singinkat43/CryingMary.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dspen2005 Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 we chanted the Stabat Mater at both Lauds and Vespers today... it was very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofpheritup Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 [quote name='master_alterserver' date='Apr 9 2004, 07:51 PM']Stabat Mater is the catchiest tune I've heard, simple and beautiful [right][snapback]159013[/snapback][/right] [/quote] And one of the few that I can actually play on my recorder and not humiliate myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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