My people

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.