The other day I posted about the Collect for the beautiful Votive Mass “ad postulandam gratiam bene moriendi … to beg for the grace of dying well”.
Here is the Secret of that Mass formulary.
Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, hostiam quam tibi offerimus
pro extremo vitae nostrae, et concede:
ut per eam universa nostra purgentur delicta;
ut, qui tuae dispositionis flagellis in hac vita atterimur,
in futura requiem consequamur aeternam.
LITERAL VERSION:
Receive, O Lord, we beseech You, the sacrifice which we offer to You
for the final phase of our life: and grant
that by it all our sins may be cleansed away,
in order that we who, by Your provision, are stricken by scourges in this life,
may obtain eternal rest in the life to come.
Scourges in this life by God’s ordering or arrangement? Yes, God foresees afflictions and will sometimes impose afflictions to correct us and to test and strengthen us. This was appointed from the fall of our First Parent. God described what life after Original Sin would be like for us. Remember: in the fall of our First Parents the entire race fell… which is why the entire race today is affected.
The consolation, answer, strengthening medicine for our state is in this Secret: the sacrifice we offer… the Eucharist… the renewal of Calvary and the Last Supper.
On the Cross, Christ shed His Blood for the forgiveness of sins. Not for the hiding of sins or ignoring of sins. The forgiveness, the cleansing and removal of the stain of guilt. We have the memory of our sins, and that memory must also be purified. But when we approach Christ the Redeemer through the Sacraments of Baptism at the beginning, of Penance for post-Baptismal sins, and the Eucharist in the state of grace, we have what we need to bear the scourges with hope and with thanksgiving for the many benefits God has given us: including the opportunity of life itself, which goes beyond the grave and finds its ultimate bliss in the sight of the Most Holy Trinity.
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God Bless your mother, Father.