Responsory for the Apostles
R. O luminous
apostles’ band—
to recognize the truth you rise
and open wide
the schoolhouse prison of the devil’s mastery,
to wash
its captives clean within the font
of living water—
you are a brilliant light
within the darkest shadows,
the strongest kind of pillars
the Lamb’s Bride to uphold
in all the ornament
R. of him through whose rejoicing
that Mother Virgin bears
her banner.
V. For the spotless Lamb’s
the Bridegroom of
that spotless Bride
R. of him through whose rejoicing
that Mother Virgin bears
her banner.