Fac me tecum pie flere / Let me mingle tears with thee

Here is an image entitled The Crucifixion by Willem Vrelant, dated to the 1460's and held in the Getty Museum.

In the centre is Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who has finally given up the ghost. The position of His head draws our gaze down to the group on His right where His Blessed Mother, supported by St John and St Mary Magdalene, is looking directly at us, as if inviting our hearts and minds to respond to this scene. The female figure with her head covered is Mary of Cleophas (see John xix. 25). 

To Our Saviour's left is a group of four men, two of whom are soldiers. One of these is the centurion and his words are shown in the scroll :

Vere Filius Dei erat iste.

Indeed this was the Son of God

[Matthew xxvii.54]

We can also make out what seem to be the sponge with vinegar and the spear which opened the side of Our Lord.

The text beneath the image reads as follows:

Ad nonam de passione domini nostri Jesu Christi

Hora nona dominus ihesus expiravit,

hely clamans animam patri commendavit.

Latus eius lancea miles perforavit,

terra tunc contremuit et sol obscuravit.

At nones (the ninth hour of the day 3:00 pm) of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Jesus Lord at the ninth hour His spirit forth did send:

Crying Eli and His soul to Father did commend:

With a lance a soldier did pierce through His tender side:

The earth then trembled and the sun His shining light did hide.

The text comes from the Hours of the Holy Cross (see Preces Latinae for more).

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At Matins bound, at Prime reviled

Condemned to death at Terce,

Nailed to the Cross at Sext.

At None His blessed Side they pierced,

They take Him down at Vesper-Tide,

In the grave at Compline lay,

Who henceforth bids His Church observe

These sevenfold hours alway.

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen. 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life everlasting. Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) xxiv. 30-31.