Geese Book Volume I - fol. 177v
Feria sexta /De lancea domini et armorum christi
Feast of the Holy Lance and the Nails
Mass for the Holy Lance and the Nails: Sequentia: Hodiernae festum lucis
Hodiernae festum lucis
et sollemne vitae ducis
pro victrici lancea
Decantemus laudes ei,
quem transfixi vice rei
haec salutis framea
Omnis utriusque sexus
te stringebat culpae nexus
et mortis angustia
Psalle illi qui resolvit
culpam, poenam pro te solvit
vitae dans remedia
Ave ferrum triumphale,
intrans pectus tu vitale
caeli pandis ostia
Fecundata tu cruore,
felix hasta, nos amore
per te fixi saucia
Felix cruor, quem fuderunt,
artus Christi, quos foderunt
clavorum fixoria
Fixa per te ac rigata
et per clavos solidata
nostra sint praecordia
Salve Jesu Nazarene,
tu pro nobis mortis poenae
affectus iniuria
Placa patrem maiestatis,
ut in aevum cum beatis
nos coronet gloria
The festival of light today
and celebration of our life’s leader
for the conquering lance
Let us sing and praise him,
transfixed instead of the guilty
by this spear of salvation
Everyone of each sex
wounded you, bound in sin
and in the suffering of death
Sing to him who redeemed
from sin, who suffered punishment for you
giving the remedy of life
Hail triumphant sword,
entering the living breast
you open the doors of heaven
Made fertile by blood
happy spear wounding us
with love through you, so pierced
Happy blood, which was shed
by the limbs of Christ, pierced
by the driving of nails
May our hearts be transfixed
through you and watered
and made firm through nails
Hail, Jesus of Nazareth,
for us you suffered
the punishment of death
Placate the father of majesty
that for ever with the blessed
we may be crowned in glory.