Meter: Long Meter (88 88)
Text: © 2025
Tune: O JESU or VEXILLA REGIS NOVA
Music: Aaron Fenker, © 2025 or Paul D. Weber, © 2003
O Jesu, Thou my Savior art
To me Thou dost rich grace impart;
Thine honor great ‘tis me to save
From sin and Satan, death and grave.
In Calv’ry’s gruesome Rood I ween
That Thou hast died for sinners mean;
Our Father’s wrath assuaged hath been
Which promised death for any sin.
The devil’s gins all sundered lie,
Since Thou for us didst gainst him vie;
A mortal wound is e’er his fate,
For Thou hast crushed that serpant’s pate.
O death, vain master, where thy sting?
O death, what fear canst thou now bring?
For Christ, unending Life, our God,
Through thee, thee underfoot hath trod.
O grave, when Christ His three days sped,
Left only thee behind as dead,
And hence, one day, my flesh shall be
By Him from thy weak grasp set free.
O Jesu, glory be to Thee,
For Thy salvation great and free,
Whom with the Father we adore
And Holy Ghost forevermore. Amen.
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