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CONCERT SUGGESTIONS
“PASSIO“
The Passion of Christ in Gregorian chant – Recited texts taken from "La Passione - Via Crucis al Colosseo" 1999, by Mario Luzi
Incipit
Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum.
Tunc venit Jesus cum illis in villam, quæ dicitur Gethsemani, et dixit discipulis suis : “Sedete hic, donec vadam illuc et orem”. Et assumpto Petro et duobus filiis Zebedæi, cœpit contristari et mæstus esse. Tunc ait illis : “Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem : sustinete hic, et vigilate mecum”.
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go yonder and pray”. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here and watch with me.” (26,36-38)
Father, in your prescience you know everything before it exists
and when it exists
you watch it exist with your inscrutable glance.
How far from you is the anguish that oppresses me.
The anguish you see on my face
and in my heart is that of prescience.
Everything makes sense to you: even this;
although sometimes I doubt
if this suffering will ever happen to you
then suddenly I repent of this
because I know your mercy.
Father what is about to happen that has not already happened to you?
What is this dismay?
Something troubles me about time,
time is of humans, you created it for them,
you gave it to them for creation, to begin eras, to close them.
You know time but do not share it.
From the depths of time I tell you: sorrow
for time is strong in man, invincible.
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