The link for this was typed incorrectly yesterday, alas–KSH.
This is my Lenten talk from this past Wednesday at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Sumter, South Carolina, as part of their series on the cross. It is an mp3 file,it lasts a little more than 30 minutes and you may find the link here.
You may also be interested in the brochure for the whole series there (pdf).
For anyone who hasn’t listened to the whole thing it’s a very good use of thirty-odd short minutes. The seventeenth century example you shared was cogent but I thought a few other examples you gave were also so. By the way you said it was in French: do you read it? The quote from Psalm 85 made a great summation. I think it is used in some part of a Liturgy maybe Eastern. Your Prayer at the conclusion was also a memorable dismissal. Didn’t know you had such a [i]bono vox[/i]