Post by homeschooldad on Dec 17, 2023 3:41:43 GMT
Not clear where this came from, but well worth sharing:
Celebrating the Holy Mass recently in a chapel near his family home where he has always been welcome to celebrate the Old Rite, the author was struck by an occurrence of a certain magnitude. He had reached that point of the Holy Mysteries where, immediately subsequent to the consumption of the Sacred Host, the celebrant scrapes from the Corporal onto the patena any fragments of It which may perhaps have remained there, and then brushes Them with closed fingers over the Most Precious Blood. Sometimes a celebrant may ask Himself why he should accomplish such actions when usually no fragment may be decried.
The author, executing this brushing movement, then, from the patena over the Most Precious Blood, was surprised to see a beam of bright sunlight shine at that moment from what was presumably a window in the roof onto the Most Precious Blood, for the confection of Which in that church red wine 8 is used. All of a sudden the surface of the Blood was illuminated, and upon It, what seemed to be a quantity of some thirty or forty minute stars, standing out against the dark night sky, containing each of them in His entirety the very Creator of the stars.
Creator alme siderum
Aeterna lux credentium
Jesu, Redemptor omnium,
intende votis supplicum…
*
Virtus, honor, laus, gloria,
Deo Patri cum Filio,
Sancto simul Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen.
O loving Creator of the stars, Eternal light of the faithful, Jesus, Redeemer of all. hearken to the prayers of Thy suppliants… Virtue, honour, praise and glory be to God the Father with the Son, together with the Holy Paraclete, forever and ever. Amen.
(Advent Hymn)
Celebrating the Holy Mass recently in a chapel near his family home where he has always been welcome to celebrate the Old Rite, the author was struck by an occurrence of a certain magnitude. He had reached that point of the Holy Mysteries where, immediately subsequent to the consumption of the Sacred Host, the celebrant scrapes from the Corporal onto the patena any fragments of It which may perhaps have remained there, and then brushes Them with closed fingers over the Most Precious Blood. Sometimes a celebrant may ask Himself why he should accomplish such actions when usually no fragment may be decried.
The author, executing this brushing movement, then, from the patena over the Most Precious Blood, was surprised to see a beam of bright sunlight shine at that moment from what was presumably a window in the roof onto the Most Precious Blood, for the confection of Which in that church red wine 8 is used. All of a sudden the surface of the Blood was illuminated, and upon It, what seemed to be a quantity of some thirty or forty minute stars, standing out against the dark night sky, containing each of them in His entirety the very Creator of the stars.
Creator alme siderum
Aeterna lux credentium
Jesu, Redemptor omnium,
intende votis supplicum…
*
Virtus, honor, laus, gloria,
Deo Patri cum Filio,
Sancto simul Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen.
O loving Creator of the stars, Eternal light of the faithful, Jesus, Redeemer of all. hearken to the prayers of Thy suppliants… Virtue, honour, praise and glory be to God the Father with the Son, together with the Holy Paraclete, forever and ever. Amen.
(Advent Hymn)