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Newsletter 13th September 2015
TRAMORE PARISH FEAST DAY – Monday 14th September
Exalting the Holy Cross
1
O Sweet Love, you have killed your Beloved,
I beg of you, let me die of Love!
Love, you who led your Lover to such a hard death,
why have you done this?
Was it that you did not want me to perish?
Do not spare me, let me die in Love’s embrace.
2
You did not spare him whom you loved so dearly;
Why then be indulgent with me?
Catch me on your hook, like fish that cannot get away-
That will be a sign that you love me.
Do not spare me: I long to die drowned in Love.
Love is fixed to the cross-
The cross has taken him and will not let him go.
3
I run and cling to that cross
That my anguish may not drive me mad.
To flee would lead me to despair;
For my name would be cancelled from the book of Love.
O cross, I fix myself to you and cling to you,
That as I die, I may taste Life!
For you are adorned with honeyed Death
And I am wretched not to have tasted you!
O daring soul, impatient for wounds,
May I die heartbroken with Love!
4
I run to the cross and read
Its blood-stained pages-
That is the book that makes me a doctor
of natural philosophy and theology.
O book inscribed with golden letters
And all a bloom with Love!
5
O Love of the Lamb, vaster than any sea,
Who can dare to speak of you?
He who has drowned in you,
and no longer knows where he is;
He whom folly seems that right path,
Who goes about crazed by Love.