Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doContinue reading “John Donne, Holy Sonnets”
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Eucharistic Hymn from the Acts of Thomas
We eat your holy bodywhich was crucified for us.We drink your holy bloodwhich was shed for us.May your body be our salvationand your blood forgive us our sins. Because for our sake you tasted gall,may the enemy’s bitterness be killed in us. Because for our sake you drank sour wine,may what is weak in usContinue reading “Eucharistic Hymn from the Acts of Thomas”
In considering the tomb
In considering the tomb and those in the tomb, we weep, But we should not; for we do not know whence they have come,And where they are now, and who has them.They have come from temporal life, released from its sorrows;They are at peace, waiting for the receiving of divine light.The Lover of Man hasContinue reading “In considering the tomb”
He has lifted me to the heavens
He has lifted me to the Heavens; you He has put to flight;For the rest of time I share the throne, I am no longer subject to you.He took my body that He might make it new;He will make it immortal and cause it to share His throne.I shall reign with Him, for I haveContinue reading “He has lifted me to the heavens”
We expect the Resurrection
We expect the Resurrection. We know that Christ’s death is no longer the hopeless, the ultimate end of everything. Baptized into His death, we partake already of His life that came out of the grave. We receive His Body and Blood which are the food of immortality. We have in ourselves the token, the anticipationContinue reading “We expect the Resurrection”
We keep vigil on this night
Dearest brothers and sisters, we keep vigil on this night, on which we recall that our Lord was buried. We ought to keep vigil during that time in which, for our sakes, he slept. Long before, he announced his passion through his prophet: “I slept,” he says, “and I rose up, because the Lord receivedContinue reading “We keep vigil on this night”
You are incontestably alive
We give glory to you, Lord, who raised up your cross to span the jaws of death like a bridge by which souls might pass from the region of the dead to the land of the living. We give glory to you who put on the body of a mortal and made it the sourceContinue reading “You are incontestably alive”
O Night brighter than day!
O Miracle! Hades has swallowed Christ the Lord and has not digested him. The lion has devoured the lamb, and has not stomached him. Death has swallowed life and has vomited in nausea, even those which it has previously devoured. The giant could not bear the dead Christ. The corpse was dreadful to the giant.Continue reading “O Night brighter than day!”
Bede on Easter and Baptism
We can understand that each of us enacts the mystical celebrations of Easter on the day of our baptism, in that we escape spiritual annihilation through the sign of the precious blood, and pass over from spiritual darkness. Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione
In spring
In spring all creatures came into being and the first parent was formed from the clay of the earth. In spring Jacob was called from Mesopotamia to his own land. In spring the children of Israel were led out of the land of Egypt, the blood of the lamb turned the destroyer of Egypt away,Continue reading “In spring”
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