For the Chinese Martyrs
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Do please read the poem, given below, as you listen. The music and the poem are intimately -- even inextricably - linked.
Poem by James Matthew Wilson
I/Fr. Chrysostom Chang:
A flowering of wire
Binds the bare wrists behind;
The opened skin a fire
He suffers to remind
Of one before who wore a crown of briar.
II/Fr. Francis Tian Tiande:
All other petals fled
As pelting snow descends,
Stiff boughs awash in red
Blossoms the season lends
Blush like the beaten prisoner’s lifted head.
*
Cold breath in air appears
As he toils through the cold,
Exiled these thirty years.
His stiffening arms enfold
A girl who wanders through the snow in tears.
III/ Gertrude Li Minwen
Within the cell she’ll wait
As does the lily’s heart
Beneath the snowfall’s weight,
However unsure what part
She plays within the suffering Church’s fate.
IV/ Fr. Joseph Li Chang
After the lamp-lit Mass,
The corporal stashed away,
He seemed a shattered glass
And now began to pray
That with his suffering his breath might pass.
*
The spring rains come at last
To soften frozen soil.
The heart regrets the past;
The stomach longs for oil.
Green shoots appear where last year’s seeds were cast.
V/ Fr. John Huang Yongmu
They are too long, the days
Of laboring iron and stone.
Our food a bowl of maize,
Our prayers a silent moan,
We, the afflicted, are yet full of praise.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Copyright ©2024 by Lumen Verum Music. Text used with permission of the poet.
Thanks for sharing this with me! Yes, it is very BEAUTIFULLY WELL SANG VOICES WITH EMOTION........... GOD BLESS!
This is hauntingly beautiful, and the text with music should make us all pause for a moment in respect for those who died for Christ and His Church. We should ask: Will I be resolute if asked to die for my faith? Thank you, Frank, for giving us this necessary and sublime meditation.
signor La Rocca,ascolto solo canti gregoriani o Hildegarda......sono in opposizione al modernismo....detesto quelle oscene chiese che i massoni impongono per distruggere la nostra bimillenaria religione,ma la sua composizione è bellissima,toccante e nuova,.......ancora i miei complimenti La Rocca....le garantisco che sono sinceri
Questo è un commento molto gratificante. Grazie mille.
So beautiful but one must read the poem as well. I love it.
Hauntingly beautiful, and sad. May Our Lord's love comfort and protect the Faithful in China.
Powerful!
Thanks so much for posting the poem. This is so beautiful! God bless you and JM Wilson!
This choir is awesome spiritual inspiration.
Bellissima ...💛🙏💕🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷