Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.
Above: Christus mit der heiligen Veronika auf dem Weg zum Kalvarienberg, presumably from the Danube college, c. 1520.
From The Liturgical 12 months.
The holy liturgy is wealthy in thriller throughout today of the Church’s celebrating the anniversaries of so many great occasions; however because the principal a part of these mysteries is embodied within the rites and ceremonies of the respective days, we will give our explanations in accordance because the event presents itself. Our object within the current chapter is to say just a few phrases respecting the overall character of the mysteries of those two weeks.
We now have nothing so as to add to the reason, already given in our Lent, on the thriller of forty. The holy season of expiation continues its course till the quick of sinful man has imitated, in its length, that noticed by the Man-God within the desert. The military of Christ’s trustworthy youngsters continues to be combating towards the invisible enemies of man’s salvation; they’re nonetheless vested of their non secular armour, and, aided by the angels of sunshine, they’re struggling hand handy with the spirits of darkness, by compunction of coronary heart and by mortification of the flesh.
As we’ve got already noticed, there are three objects which principally have interaction the ideas of the Church throughout Lent. The Ardour of our Redeemer, which we’ve got felt to be coming nearer to us every week; the preparation of the catechumens for Baptism, which is to be administered to them on Easter eve; the reconciliation of the general public penitents, who’re to be readmitted into the Church on the Thursday, the day of the Final Supper. Every of those three objects engages increasingly the eye of the Church, the nearer she approaches the time of their celebration.
The miracle carried out by our Saviour virtually on the very gates of Jerusalem, by which He restored Lazarus to life, has roused the fury of His enemies to the best pitch of phrensy. The individuals’s enthusiasm has been excited by seeing him, who had been 4 days within the grave, strolling within the streets of their metropolis. They ask one another if the Messias, when He comes, can work higher wonders than these accomplished by Jesus, and whether or not they ought not without delay to obtain this Jesus because the Messias, and sing their Hosanna to Him, for He’s the Son of David. They can not comprise their emotions: Jesus enters Jerusalem, and so they welcome Him as their King. The excessive clergymen and princes of the individuals are alarmed at this demonstration of feeling; they don’t have any time to lose; they’re resolved to destroy Jesus. We’re going to help at their impious conspiracy: the Blood of the simply Man is to be offered, and the worth placed on it’s thirty silver items. The divine Sufferer, betrayed by certainly one of His disciples, is to be judged, condemned, and crucified. Each circumstance of this terrible tragedy is to be put earlier than us by the liturgy, not merely in phrases, however with all of the expressiveness of a elegant ceremonial.
The catechumens have however just a few extra days to attend for the fount that’s to provide them life. Every day their instruction turns into fuller; the figures of the previous Legislation are being defined to them; and little or no now stays for them to study with regard to the mysteries of salvation. The Image of religion is quickly to be delivered to them. Initiated into the glories and the humiliations of the Redeemer, they may await with the trustworthy the second of His superb Resurrection; and we will accompany them with our prayers and hymns at that solemn hour, when, leaving the defilements of sin within the life-giving waters of the font, they shall come forth pure and radiant with innocence, be enriched with the presents of the Holy Spirit, and be fed with the divine flesh of the Lamb that liveth for ever.
The reconciliation of the penitents, too, is shut at hand. Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they’re persevering with their work of expiation. The Church has nonetheless a number of passages from the sacred Scriptures to learn to them, which, like these we’ve got already heard throughout the previous couple of weeks, will breathe comfort and refreshment to their souls. The close to strategy of the day when the Lamb is to be slain will increase their hope, for they know that the Blood of this Lamb is of infinite value, and might take away the sins of the entire world. Earlier than the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, they may have recovered their misplaced innocence; their pardon will are available time to allow them, just like the penitent prodigal, to affix within the nice Banquet of that Thursday, when Jesus will say to His friends: ‘With want have I desired to eat this Pasch with you earlier than I endure.’ [St. Luke xxii. 15.]
Such are the elegant topics that are about to be introduced earlier than us: however, on the identical time, we will see our holy mom the Church mourning, like a disconsolate widow, and unhappy past all human grief. Hitherto she has been weeping over the sins of her youngsters; now she bewails the demise of her divine Partner. The joyous Alleluia has lengthy since been hushed in her canticles; she is now going to suppress one other expression, which appears too glad for a time like the current. Partially, at first [Unless it be the feast of a saint, as frequently happens during the first of these two weeks. The same exception is to be made in what follows.], however fully over the last three days, she is about to disclaim herself the usage of that formulation, which is so expensive to her: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. There may be an accent of jubilation in these phrases, which might ailing go well with her grief and the mournfulness of the remainder of her chants.
Her classes, for the night time Workplace, are taken from Jeremias, the prophet of lamentation above all others. The color of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us on the graduation of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; however when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple wouldn’t sufficiently categorical the depth of her grief; she is going to dress herself in black, as males do when mourning the demise of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Partner, is to be put to demise on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all of the realities of a final agony, He’s to yield up His Soul to His Father.
The presentiment of that terrible hour leads the troubled mom to veil the picture of her Jesus: the cross is hidden from the eyes of the trustworthy. The statues of the saints, too, are lined; for it’s however simply that, if the glory of the Grasp be eclipsed, the servant shouldn’t seem. The interpreters of the liturgy inform us that this ceremony of veiling the crucifix throughout Passiontide, expresses the humiliation to which our Saviour subjected Himself, of hiding Himself when the Jews threatened to stone Him, as is expounded within the Gospel of Ardour Sunday. The Church begins this solemn ceremony with the Vespers of the Saturday earlier than Ardour Sunday. Thus it’s that, in these years when the feast of our Girl’s Annunciation falls in Ardour-week, the statue of Mary, the Mom of God, stays veiled, even on that very day when the Archangel greets her as being filled with grace, and blessed amongst girls.