Today is Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent.
We hear about the Station (a church dedicated to two of the saints of the Roman Canon), the Collects (the Novus Ordo prayer is really wordy), and then have part something from a General Audience of Benedict XVI during Lent some years ago, we hear a phrase dear to him, and which he used in the title of a book.
From Benedict:
Looking at Christ, we feel at the same time looked at by him. He whom we have pierced with our faults never tires of pouring out upon the world an inexhaustible torrent of merciful love.
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Thank you, Fr. Z. Beautiful. What wondrous love is this, indeed. We have a large crucifix in our Church and I frequently look upon Christ crucifed. Your teaching reminds me that Christ looks back upon us all in love and mercy.
Deo Gratias.
These LENTCAzTS are a real treat for me in the evenings, when little feet have stopped running around :-). Here is a fine video with a more classical performance of that marvellous American hymn, What wondrous love is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlzzpwKt6uk
Technically, “What Wonderous Love,” is a spiritual. There are only a few songs that make me shiver in the mystery when I hear them, if you know what I mean, and this is one of them along with, “Oh Sacred Head Surrounded.” Another is, “I Wonder as I Wander,” which, although traditionally a Christmas song, is perfectly suitable for Lent in some ways. The most beautiful spiritual painting I own is from a Christmas card. Mary, in light violet, is kneeling in a forest, where only the barks of the trees are visible, with the Baby wrapped in her arms in white. Behind the figures is a blazing Cross in light – the beginning and the end of Christ’s life in one setting, the love of a Mother for her Son in the foreground and the love of a Son for his Mother in the background, a human life of grace in the front, and the source of grace standing guard and radiating from behind.
There are many mysteries in Lent and if you don’t get a shiver up your soul at least once during Lent, you might want to think about what love really means.
The Chicken
The Chicken
Dear Chicken, those songs make me shiver too! Here’s another of those deeply moving American spirituals: Swing low, sweet chariot, here with Cathleen Battle and Harlem Boy’s Choir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVyBjqY3r0k.