AMDG

Come Holy Ghost, pour your gifts into our hearts, for we need them so much!

As Pope Saint Gregory the Great  (Pope from 590-604)  said:

The Holy Spirit gives wisdom against folly, understanding against dullness, counsel against rashness, fortitude against fears, knowledge against ignorance, piety against hardness of our heart, and fear against pride.

Please see the  “Devotions” Page for a seasonal hymn!

…. so let us get ready for Pentecost!

There is a novena to the Holy  Ghost on the Devotions  page

(12. Novena to Holy Ghost)

There are also hymns from the   Roman Breviarium  on the Devotions  page

(11. Ascension  Hymn)

Whether we are greeting our mothers or are greeted as mothers, we all have a mother to greet – Our Lady.

How can we praise Her in a fitting manner? If one can starts , one never ends, for as Saint  Bernard said:

de Maria numquam satis (About  Mary – it is never enough).

So let ask place some flowers at Her feet-let  the flowers to speak for us!

May sharing her sorrows fill our hearts with graces!

May we dry her tears by singing the praises of God loudly AMDG!

….how God loved us, paying the price with His sufferings to wipe out our sins.

Please see the Devotions page for  the Passiontide hymn at ad Laudes!

More sparing therefore let us make Words we speak, the food we take, (From the Breviary hymn at ad Matutinum  during Lent)

and pray:

Our hearts are open, Lord, to Thee: Thou knowest our infirmity; Pour out on all who seek Thy face Abundance of thy pardoning grace.

(From the Breviary hymn ad Vesperas during Lent)

Please see the “Devotions” page for the 3 Lenten hymns of the 1962 Breviarium Romanum!

May the  Feast of Epiphany bring you many graces  – graces for seeing what god wishes and graces for strength  to do it!

There are two hymns for  Epiphany on the Devotions page.(7. 2Hymns for  Epiphany)

The Word was made flesh…It has really happened and at that time…

Wishing you all a gracefilled Christmas

In Christo

May God grant us the graces of a fervent and devout Advent preparation for Christmas! For help with this, look for  the  O antiphons on the  “ Devotions” page!.

…. on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

The sheer beauty of the Brigittine Divine Office (the Propers of which we are appending to the regular, 1962 Latin Divine Office) never fails to astound me again and again, but especially on Our Lady’s Feastdays. Plans to write more about are afoot, please pray that they materialise soon!  In the meantime, here is a sample, showing   the rich imagery of the Brigittine hymns.

From the Brigittine Breviary: The hymn on the Feasts of of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Little Hours (ad Primam, ad Tertiam, ad Sextam, and ad Non

Ignis ardore triplicis

Mundi decor emarcuit

Eripit fons in medio

Terrae per quem refloruit

By the heat of a triple fire

The beauty of the world withered away

A fountain erupted in the middle of the land

By which the land flourished again.

O Virgo fons laetitiae

Tu corda nostra marcida

Irriga rore gratiae

Sint ut virtute florida

Oh, Virgin, fountain of joy

Soften our hearts

Irrigate them with the dew of grace

So that they would be flowery with virtue

Maria  Mater gratiae

Mater misericordiae

Tu nos ab hoste protege

Et hora mortis suscipe

Mary, Mother of grace

Mother of mercy

Protect us from  the enemy

And recieve us at the hour of our death.

Gloria tibi Domine

Qui natus es de Virgine

Cum Patre et Sancto Spritu

In  sempiterna saecula. Amen

Glory to Thee, O Lord

Who hast been born of the Virgin

With the Father and the Holy Ghost

Into the eternal ages. Amen.