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Panis Angelicus, O Sacrum Convivium, O Salutaris Hostia, Adoro Te Devote, Tantum Ergo
THREE HYMNS FOR CORPUS CHRISTI, also ADORO TE DEVOTE, and TANTUM ERGO
Below are three hymns composed by St. Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Google any one of them on YouTube, to hear them sung. Adoro Te Devote was also composed as…
The Wondrous Gift (Eu-Charis) is wafer thin.
The Wondrous Gift (Eu-Charis)
The Mystery of faith is
wafer thin,
and vast
with the Wonder of the One Who Is,
-'I am who am'-
within this crumb of bread.To stand, to hold 'Amen!' to mystery
so close and far beyond.
I cannot grasp, I cannot shape the edges
of this truth.
I'll stand, I'll kneel, I'll bow...
Trinity,- ‘In Dwelling’.
In Dwelling
To be still,
to be
where the Trinity lives-
in me:
I hear a stirring
in my soul's
...
Pentecost Sunday: ‘Our Generation too experiences Pentecost’.
We too were there, in that Upper Room, ‘together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus’. We too are asked not to leave, until we have received the Promise of the Father. And the same Holy Spirit hovers over the gathered people of God in this generation, with all its…
The ‘Furnace’ of Pentecost
‘Furnace‘
Only in the furnace-heat
of Love,
(God’s love for me)
can this hard heart begin
to soften, yield,
allow itself to be
upon the anvil of
His Will,
His dream of love,
for me.
‘Veni, Sancte Spiritus !’
‘Riga quod est aridum’
-moisten what is dry
‘Recte quod est devium’
-straighten what is crooked
‘Fove quod est frigidum’
-be fire beneath my freezing heart that…
The Opening of a new Redemptorist House, ‘Scala’, in Cork.
This past Sunday, May 20,2012, saw the official opening of the new Redemptorist House, called ‘SCALA’, in Blackrock, in Cork. Located close to Blackrock Castle, the surroundings of what was formerly known as Castlemahon House are beautiful, with miles of pathway along the River Lee, nearby. It was blessed…
Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, May 20, 2012.
‘ARE WE THERE YET?, ARE WE THERE YET? ARE WE THERE YET?’- so says the young Goat to the Camel and to the Cow, in the Bothar advertisement. (See ‘Are we there yet? on You Tube!)
On the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, we can ask ourselves the…
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B: – A Gospel Reflection
Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B, -May 13th 2012.
Gospel of the Day, – St. John, Chapter 15, verses 9 – 17.
Giving a retreat one day to a Confirmation Class, in Antrim, I put a leading question to them ‘How much does God love us? This much, maybe…’…
A Never-Ending Ocean
A Never-ending Ocean
“A never-ending ocean, bottomless and shoreless”,-
his passion and his dying,
instead of us,
for us.
‘Ours…he was bearing.’ (‘bearting’)*
‘Ours…he was carrying’
‘for our rebellions…’
‘because of our guilt’
‘We’ replaced by ‘He’
‘Us’ replaced by ‘Him’:
Who can fathom this bottomless ocean?
I stand on the shore of a shoreless sea,
dip my soul as if my…
Fr. Finbarr Connolly C.Ss.R., R.I.P.
Fr. Finbarr Connolly, C.Ss.R.
1924 – 2012
Fr. Finbarr was born on 24th August 1924 in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He professed his vows as a Redemptorist in Dundalk on 8th September 1942. After his profession he transferred to the Redemptorist House of Studies,…
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