Cordi Meo Valide

Tui nati vulne- rati, Tarn dignati pro me pad, Pcenas mecum di- vide. Fac me tecum pie flere, Crucifixo condo- lere, Donee ego vixero. Juxta crucem tecum stare, . Et me tibi soci- are, In planctu desidero. 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 Saviour crucified. Let me share with thee His pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, Mourning Him Who mourned tor 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 thee to give. Digitized by Goode 458 The Stations of the Cross Virgo virginum praeclara, Virgin of all virgins best ! Mihi jam non sis amara, Listen to my fond request: Fac me tecum plan- Let me share thy grief gere. divine; Fac, ut portem Christi Let me, to my latest mortem, breath, Passionis fac consortem, In my body bear the death Et plagas recolere. Of that dying Son of thine. Tac me plagis vulne- Wounded with His every rari, wound, Fac me cruce ineb- Steep my soul till it hath riari, swooned Et cruore Filii. In His very blood away; Flammis ne urar succen- Be to me, O Virgin, sus nigh, Per te, Virgo, sim defen- Lest in flames I burn and sus die, In die judicii. In His awful judgment day. Christe, cum sit hinc Christ, when Thou shalt exire, call me hence, Da per Matrem me Be Thy Mother my de- venire fence, Ad palmam victorias. Be Thy cross my victory; Quando corpus morietur, While my body here decays, Fac ut animae don- May my soul Thy good- etur ness praise, Paradisi gloria. Safe in paradise with Thee. Amen