OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
By Francis A. Gaffney, O.P.
Lepanto marks the spot of victory,O’er crescent cruel and strong, by forces weak,Of hallowed cross; of which, “if sign you seek,”’Tis not of man but a Divinity.The white-robed Pius Fifth the RosaryUplifted like the rod of Moses, meek;Whilst Ottomans on Christians wrath would wreakAnd, as of old, engulfed them in the sea.O Lady of the Rosary to-day,Thy clients all beseech thee, hear their prayer,And beg the Christ Who raging storms did quell,Bid warring nations cease their bloody fray;His power and thine honor, we declare,O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.
Lepanto marks the spot of victory,O’er crescent cruel and strong, by forces weak,Of hallowed cross; of which, “if sign you seek,”’Tis not of man but a Divinity.The white-robed Pius Fifth the RosaryUplifted like the rod of Moses, meek;Whilst Ottomans on Christians wrath would wreakAnd, as of old, engulfed them in the sea.O Lady of the Rosary to-day,Thy clients all beseech thee, hear their prayer,And beg the Christ Who raging storms did quell,Bid warring nations cease their bloody fray;His power and thine honor, we declare,O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.
Lepanto marks the spot of victory,O’er crescent cruel and strong, by forces weak,Of hallowed cross; of which, “if sign you seek,”’Tis not of man but a Divinity.The white-robed Pius Fifth the RosaryUplifted like the rod of Moses, meek;Whilst Ottomans on Christians wrath would wreakAnd, as of old, engulfed them in the sea.
Lepanto marks the spot of victory,
O’er crescent cruel and strong, by forces weak,
Of hallowed cross; of which, “if sign you seek,”
’Tis not of man but a Divinity.
The white-robed Pius Fifth the Rosary
Uplifted like the rod of Moses, meek;
Whilst Ottomans on Christians wrath would wreak
And, as of old, engulfed them in the sea.
O Lady of the Rosary to-day,Thy clients all beseech thee, hear their prayer,And beg the Christ Who raging storms did quell,Bid warring nations cease their bloody fray;His power and thine honor, we declare,O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.
O Lady of the Rosary to-day,
Thy clients all beseech thee, hear their prayer,
And beg the Christ Who raging storms did quell,
Bid warring nations cease their bloody fray;
His power and thine honor, we declare,
O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.