Speak, Tomás, for their sake to the people who will the destruction of the Catholic Church and hate the Savior. You and I know that His Church will last. Your words, your music will reach them. O my people, what have I done to thee?
Or how have I offended you? Answer me. Because I led thee out of the land of Egypt: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Savior. Because I led thee through the desert for forty years: and fed thee with manna, and brought thee into a land exceeding good: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Savior. What more ought I to have done for thee, that I have not done? I planted thee, indeed, My most beautiful vineyard: and thou hast become exceeding bitter to me: For in my thirst thou gavest me vinegar to drink: and with a spear thou hast pierced the side of thy Savior. For thy sake I scourged the firstborn of Egypt: and thou hast given me up to be scourged. I led thee out of Egypt having drowned Pharaoh in the Red Sea: and thou hast delivered Me to the chief priests. I opened the sea before thee: and thou hast opened my side with a spear. I went before thee in a pillar of cloud: and thou hast led me to the judgment hall of Pilate. I fed thee with manna in the desert; and thou hast assaulted me with blows and scourges. I gave thee the water of salvation from the rock: and thou hast given me gall and vinegar to drink. For thy sake I struck the kings of the Canaanites: and thou hast struck my head with a reed. I gave thee a royal scepter: and thou hast given a crown of thorns for my head. I exalted thee with great strength; and thou hast hanged me on the gibbet of the cross.
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Josef Ketzer
5/8/2022 12:12:43 pm
I remember having heard these ceremonies consciously for the first time when I was, I think, 8 years old and spent the Easter vacations in the home village of my mother at her sister's. I can still feel how much I was impressed by the dark solemnity of those tunes.
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5/8/2022 12:46:03 pm
I can only imagine how beautiful a home village in Austria is. I will post a picture of a small village.
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