O SACRED HEAD SURROUNDED

Tune: PASTOR BONUS

Meter: 7 6 7 6
Text: SALVE CAPUT CRUENTATUM (GOOD FRIDAY)
Tune: THE LORD IS MY TRUE SHEPHERD (GOOD FRIDAY)

Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)
Performed by Fr. J. Roel Lungay
Arranged by J. Roel Lungay and Romeo Mascarinas
Orchestrated by Romeo Mascarinas

Cover Art by Glenn Angcla

Mastered at Fro's Music (Wavlab Element 8)

1
O Sacred Head surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and out to scorn!

2
The power of death comes o’er you,
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore you,
And tremble as they gaze.

(Interlude)

3
I see your strength and vigor
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving you of life;

4
O agony and dying!
O love to sinner’s free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn your face on me.

(Interlude)

5
In this, your bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With your most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be.
6
Beneath your cross abiding
Forever would I rest,
In you dear love confiding,
And with your presence blest.

Text: Salve caput cruentatum; Ascr. to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153;
Tr. by Henry Baker, 1821-1877
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)