Rosa Sanguinis Philomena Kampe
I composed this poem during the end of my senior year of high school as a meditation and devotion to the Christ Child and His Most Precious Blood. The piece portrays the soul and its relationship to the Incarnate Son of God in a combination of the traditions of various saints: St. Therese, Sts. Dominic Savio and John Bosco, and St. Philip Neri. This poem was written in honor of the Holy Innocents and in memory of my infant sister Angela. O Rosa delicata! Per annum multum Scio eam in animam crescere. Est similis lacrimosae Imo sanguinis stillae. Autem magis est Multae stillae, piscina. Nam rosa est rubra In spinae peccatae effusa E corde Pueri Qui est admirabilis. Et lacrimae Suae defluxit Cum effusus est rosam. In coronam Suam Gemma sane floruit. April 15, 2020
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