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O Great Price Of
Our Precious Soul's Adoption
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Hymn based on The 15 Mysteries Of The Holy Rosary

Nihil Obstat: Reverend Lawrence Beeson, Censor Librorum
Imprimatur: † Most Reverend Joseph L. Charron, C.PP.S., Bishop of Des Moines
December 15, 1998
St. Valarian (377-457) and Other Martyrs of North Africa
A Patron Saint of Weather. Bishop with St. Augustine (354-430) Hippo, Africa

Music: "Tantum Ergo," St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Lyric: The Holy Ghost & Richard T. Gannon ©1998 TUTTgroup.com

"O Great Price Of Our Precious Soul's Adoption"; - (St. Thomas Aquinas Viaticum Quote*)
Late did we "take up & read" how to repay Thee with love and adoration; (Augustine Conversion)
Alms, purity, trust, humility, pray, forgive, sing, mercy, works, fasts; - (St. Paul)
And we shall now know secrets Sacred & Immaculate Hearts tell & ask; - (Sacred & Im. Hearts)
For Lambs hurting: we do penance, sacrifice devotedly and live chivalrously; - (Lost Sheep)
Transfigure us in suffering, may Thy Just Promises shine through all daily. - (Jacinta of Fatima)

Hark! At long last — The Messiah! Our Holy Ghost took Messanger Gabriel - (Fullness of Time)
To offer a wise virgin, Jesus: "God Made Flesh, I Am, Courage, I Will." - (The Annunciation)
Great venerate "Thee Unborn" — the unborn Baptist bounced in ecstasy! - (The Visitation)
Stable stall straw to stone Sepulcher slab: so shielded Seraph Serene Poverty; - (Birth Of Jesus)
"O Precocious Glory Prince," to Shepherds and Kings Magi alike, receiving; -(Shepherds & Magi)
"O Adorable Baby Lamb," Our Foster Father and Poor Madonna beaming! -(The Presentation)

Behold: during "Thy Most Beautiful Beatific Childhood" in lofty Nazareth; - (Divine Childhood)
Two Ol' Friends visited and had to unveil a Vision which vexed very much: - (Icon of Our Mother
Archangel Gabriel revealed O sin-made Cross and Spikes unto "Wee Thee"; - (of Perpetual Help)
Archangel Michael revered O Spear that would pierce Thine Heart to Bleed;
Scared, Thy Kissable Feet with Scarless Soles fled to Our Blessed Mother;
Causing a Sandal Strap to loosen, verily She is worthy to tie It and the Other. - (John 1:27)

"Our Caravan left, so I got to stay at Jacob’s House to laud Father as Son; - (Loss/Find Temple)
Awed by parables My Hard-working Parents refined therein when young. - (Angelica of EWTN)
Thy Soul is a child, come pick bouquets in David’s Hills with John and Me: - (Matthew 18:3)
Rose of Sharon, Perfumes of Sheba, Bougainvillea, Lilies of the Valley; - (Song of Songs 2:1)
For kitchen tables of Pure Solid Rock Families, dancing and merry at Home; - (Teresa of Calcutta)
Thanks, Ababa, for Folds like Those, nestled beneath Abraham's Throne." - (Gn 17:1-8, Ps 22)

Hail "O Broken Bread Divine And Holy Grail Wine," Ancient Quest of ours; - (The Last Supper)
Pity us: prune Olive Garden wrath over each fruitless Soul who sours; - (Agony In Garden)
Calumniated on a Column, gossip flailed "O Body Bloody," chipping Bone; - (Scourging, Agreda)
Were Thy Crown Thorns and Cross Throne by the Acacia gum tree grown? - (Crowning Thorns)
Of Acacia wood and gold nails Moses built Lost Ark to hold Old Covenant; - (Ex 25:10-30)
O lonely lowly thirsty desert tree, ye art exulted, "O Fruit Of Jesse" exalt! - (Exalt. of Holy Cross)

Fatal Woe! Thine Excruciatingly Torturous Climb up Mount Calvary slow; -(Carrying The Cross)
To "Man’s Decisive Victory In ‘God’s War On Sin, So Love Can Grow’"; -(Death & Resur'tion)
Unyoked Holy Ghost to tend "O Slain Lamb" in Souls, Flocks and Hosts; - (Jn14:26; Rev 14:1)
Akin to thundering light knight mount cavalry, echoing St. Paul's Boasts; - (Rv 19, St. Paul's flaws)
Galloping out The Tabernacle Fortress, Grace as ordnance, to rescue us; (De Profundis, Ps 130)
Always in time! Wash and use our crossness while suffering in Thy Service. - (Divine Mercy)

Lo, "Heaven’s Proudest Tears" prodigiously shed humbled Father when - (The Ascension)
Holding and hugging You, "Obedient Son Of Man," at Thine Ascension; - (Prodigal, 2 Cor 5:21)
Celestial Concords wept songs of Triumph Psalms, airs, Canticles & chant: -(Ps 24, St. Philomena)
"Who is 'King Of Purity, Poverty, Agony, Anger, Jealousy, The Penitant'?" - (Psalm 24:8-10)
Thanks be for Grace-gifted afflictions: minor mirrors of Thy Vast Misery; (The Good Shepherd) That let us reflect You and suffer for Others, none suffer alone in History. - (Rich Young Man)

Christ: "Almighty Father’s Mighty First, Last And Only Word For Cain"; - (Greatest Command't)
The Pentateuch exhales "Pentecost Breeze" to germinate Thy Beloved Grain; - (Pentecost, Ps 33)
Our God The Holy Spirit inspires afresh to "Breathe Blest Breath" deeply; -(Jn 20:22. St Louis IX)
To sprout, blade, petal, leaf, branch, bud, blossom, pollen, fruit sweetly. - (Parable of Vinedresser)
Amid throes of thistles and foes Thy Sure-footed Pilgrim Church grew: - (Parable of the Sower)
Kiss The Child Lamb in The Eucharist at Communion, become a child anew. - (The Eucharist)

As soon as "Morning Star" fell sound asleep, alas, for The Assumption; - (The Assumption)
Thou fetched Her with "Joseph, Guardian Given Power Over All Dominion!" - (Mother Baij)
Your Aunt, Four Grandparents, Ancestress Ruth and Family waited to begin; - (St. Bridget)
Chanting Her Childhood Litanies, as shall we, with God-Families and Kin. - (Anne C. Emmerich)
To brave fear, pain and grief, we ponder Her Patience, Rampart Brother; (Virgin Of 7 Sorrows)
My, what good counsel, comfort and peace "Radiant Mother" can deliver! - (Litany of Bl. Virgin)

"O Virgin Of Untold Efficacy" sets us in Her Crown "Refuge Of Sinners"; - (JP II in Fatima '82)
For a suffering servant’s holy life, on the way home to Heaven’s Wonders; - (The Coronation)
We pray: guard our Spirit, Will, Conduct, Mind and Body to magnify Hers; - (The Magnificat)
We beg: guide "O Trinity In Our Soul" to act on Her Joy, Sighs and Tears; - (The Angelus)
Made "Creation’s Sovereign," Maid Mariam our Heart’s Realm reignest; - (Imm. Conception)
Her Young Majesty's Grace: "Queen Most Touching, Wisest And Richest!" (Lady Good Remedy)

* St. Thomas Aquinas Viaticum Quote:

Now I receive You Who Art "The Price Of My Soul's Redemption", You Who Art Food For My Final Journey and You Who Art For The Love Of Whom I Studied, Struggled And Kept Vigil. Yes, indeed Jesus, It is You: You that I taught, You that I preached and You that I only want. Amen.

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