The words from near the beginning of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius (words by Cardinal Newman) sum up Easter Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sanctus fortis,
\nSanctus Deus,
\nDe profundis oro te,
\nMiserere,
\nJudex meus,
\nParce mihi,
\nDomine.<\/p>\nFirmly I believe and truly
\nGod is Three, and God is One;
\nAnd I next acknowledge duly
\nManhood taken by the Son.
\nAnd I trust and hope most fully
\nIn that Manhood crucified;
\nAnd each thought and deed unruly
\nDo to death, as He has died.
\nSimply to His grace and wholly
\nLight and life and strength belong.
\nAnd I love, supremely, solely,
\nHim the holy, Him the strong.<\/p>\nSanctus fortis,
\nSanctus Deus,
\nDe profundis oro te,
\nMiserere,
\nJudex meus,
\nParce mihi,
\nDomine.<\/p>\nAnd I hold in veneration,
\nFor the love of Him alone,
\nHoly Church, as His creation,
\nAnd her teachings, as His own.
\nAnd I take with joy whatever
\nNow besets me, pain or fear,
\nAnd with a strong will I sever
\nAll the ties which bind me here.
\nAdoration aye be given,
\nWith and through the angelic host,
\nTo the God of earth and heaven,
\nFather, Son and Holy Ghost.<\/p>\nSanctus fortis,
\nSanctus Deus,
\nDe profundis, oro te,
\nMiserere,
\nJudex meus,
\nMortis in discrimine.<\/p>\nI can no more; for now it comes again,
\nThat sense of ruin, which is worse than pain,
\nThat masterful negation and collapse
\nOf all that makes me man.<\/p>\n…And, crueller still,
\nA fierce and restless fright begins to fill
\nThe mansion of my soul. And worse, and worse,
\nSome bodily form of ill
\nFloats on the wind, with many a loathsome curse
\nTainting the hallowed air, and laughs, and flaps
\nIts hideous wings
\nAnd makes me wild with horror and dismay.<\/p>\nO Jesu, help! pray for me, Mary, pray!
\nSome Angel, Jesu! such as came to Thee
\nIn Thine own agony…<\/p>\nMary, pray for me. Joseph, pray for me.
\nMary, pray for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The words from near the beginning of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius (words by Cardinal Newman) sum up Easter Saturday. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, De profundis oro te, Miserere, Judex meus, Parce mihi, Domine. Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One; And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}