At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Lo! the piercing sword had ...

The Edward Caswell, which I have always known, reads,: “At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus at the last.” Fisher translates it: “Near the cross his ...

The hymn most often sung during Stations of the Cross is “At the Cross Her Station Keeping,” a translation of “Stabat Mater,” the fourteenth-century hymn written originally for the Feast ...

At the cross her station keeping, stood the mournful mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. The tune merges in my memory with a story told by author Scott Wright, who accompanied refugees ...

commonly paraphrased as "At the cross her station keeping/ Stood the mournful mother weeping/ Close to Jesus to the last." Through the subsequent stanzas the hymn keeps repeating the same theme ...