The Chapter from the Office today was beautiful:
The Chapter from today's Office was beautiful:
"Vidi civitatem sanctam
Ierusalem novam
descendentem de caelo a
Deo, paratum sponsum ornatem viro
suo"
"I saw the holy city,the
new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from
God,made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband."
What a beautiful image of the Church as the Heavenly Jerusalem descending down from Heaven! The Church is like a divine embassy, it's where God literally dwells among men and where we must enter if we should wish to live the life of Heaven after death. It's the place where, as it says in the short responsories for Vespers:
"Locus iste
sanctus est, In quo
orat sacerdos
Pro delictis et peccatis populi"
"Holy is that place,
in which the priest
prays. For the crimes and
the sins of the people."
Finally, the Magnificat antiphon for second Vespers says:
"O quam metuendas est
locus iste: vere non est
hic aliud, nisi domus Dei
et porta caeli"
"O how terrible is this place! Indeed
this is no other but the
house of God and the gate of heaven"
Just think, the Magnificat antiphon is describing both the Church and our Lady! What a deep and awesome mysteries the Church puts before us in her Office.
Ierusalem novam
descendentem de caelo a
Deo, paratum sponsum ornatem viro
suo"
"I saw the holy city,the
new Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from
God,made ready as a
bride adorned for her husband."
What a beautiful image of the Church as the Heavenly Jerusalem descending down from Heaven! The Church is like a divine embassy, it's where God literally dwells among men and where we must enter if we should wish to live the life of Heaven after death. It's the place where, as it says in the short responsories for Vespers:
"Locus iste
sanctus est, In quo
orat sacerdos
Pro delictis et peccatis populi"
"Holy is that place,
in which the priest
prays. For the crimes and
the sins of the people."
Finally, the Magnificat antiphon for second Vespers says:
"O quam metuendas est
locus iste: vere non est
hic aliud, nisi domus Dei
et porta caeli"
"O how terrible is this place! Indeed
this is no other but the
house of God and the gate of heaven"
Just think, the Magnificat antiphon is describing both the Church and our Lady! What a deep and awesome mysteries the Church puts before us in her Office.
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