The Rosary
OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Comprising, in a brief and agreeable manner, the principal points of his Life and Passion, and, with an easy method, supplying also fertile matter for meditation.
Father most high, who didst us make!
Jesu, who diedst for our sake!
Spirit, who care of us dost take!
One God who rulest all;
Grant that I may, with chastened thought,
The things for our salvation wrought
To memory recall.
Jesu! thou didst a Mother choose,
Whose Seed the serpent’s head should bruise, —
Seed of a Virgin’s womb!
May I, who seek thy Mother’s side.
And in her tender care confide,
Aye find in her a home!
Jesu, of joyful Saints the band,
Link’d with the Angels hand in hand,
Praise thee the Judge of all;
With these would I, too, praises bring,
Yet fear, through sinful memory’s sting:
Oh, hear thy suppliant’s call!
I believe in God.
DECADE I.
Jesu, thy throne of glory thou
Didst quit, and for us lowly bow,
To take our shape on earth;
To us, oh, may such boundless love
Give power to raise ourselves above.
To those of heavenly birth!
Our Father.
Jesu, the Virgin Mother blest
Conceived thee in her spotless breast
By dew of heavenly grace;
May I, too, thee with purest heart,
Since in foul sin thou hast no part,
The dreadful God embrace!
Hail Mary.
Jesu, whom Mary, Mother chaste,
O’er rugged mountains bore in haste
Elizabeth to see;
Oh, that this blessed Mother mild
Would often, with her heav’nly Child,
Those sweet steps turn to me!
Hail Mary.
