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SACRAMENTAL BENEDICTION 124
INVOCATION (all follow the P silent at lest with heart and mind
P IN THE NAME OF GOD (contemplate the endless empty circle, make it as ritual with right hand
THE FATHER (contemplate and make with right hand a middle point
THE SON (contemplate and make with right hand he vertical line of the cross
THE HOLY GHOST (contemplate and make with right hand the horizontal line of the cross
All AMEN (place right hand on heart and contemplate "what is truth of Trinity"
P (places the monstrance on the altar or the tabernacle and offers incense
O SALUTARIS HOSTIA is singed contemplated by all
O saving victim, opening wide , the gate of heaven to man below
Illusions are on every side You help supply, You strength bestow
All praise and thanks to Thee ascend For evermore blest One in Three
You grant us life that shall not end In our true native land with Thee. Amen
COLLECT
P: O Christ our holy Lord who in this wonderful Sacrament of the altar hast given unto us
The grace of the perpetual Presence and an abiding memorial of Thy surpassing love,
We will so receive this Thy most precious gift that our hearts may be pure in Thy sight
And our lives ever dedicated to Thy service, who livest and reignest with the
Father and the Holy Spirit one God throughout all ages of ages C Amen
LITANY
before the sacramental benediction. (Procession) Congregation may kneel)1 IS GOD ONE AND TRANSCENDENT ?
Is GOD in all immanent ?
Is God coming in advent ?
Some ask Church does answer "YES":
2 "FATHER" GOD : - ETERNAL ONE
GODīS "SON" is in everyone
SPIRIT comes now "clothed in sun" (Rev 12.1 )
Named by Christ our "HEAVEN-MOTHER (Hebrew gospel)
3 MORNING-STARS IN ALL STILL SING (Job 38.7
nature-angels dance in ring
with each heaven-Queen and -King
shouting for creation īs joy
4 PILGRIMS HERE IN TIME AND SPACE
do now seek Godīs hidden face
in star, grass, bird, human race
and in angels within all
5 GOD TOLD US BEFORE CREATION ( Ef 1 5)
Pilgrimage means incarnation
Heavenīs transsubstantiation God, your children bless thee+
6 PILGRIMS QUIT SLAVE-LIFE, FLESH-POT (Exodus 16 3)
seek in east some freedom- lot
paradise, a Cam( e)lot / God your children bless Thee +
7 WE CROSS RED SEA, PASSIONS WAVES
will not be desires slaves
leave the past as in its graves / God your children bless Thee +
8 PILGRIMS REACH THE "SINAI DESERT" (Exodus 19 1)
are by serpents often much hurt
are converted by Godīs prophet / God your children bless Thee +
9 OUR SPIES COME BACK FROM EAST (Numbers 13.1)
Do all like them? Not the least (Number 14 )
We thank spies as headman priest /. God, some children bless Thee +
10 STAR FROM EAST SAYS NOW ADVENT
God has child from heaven sent
Angels, shepherds, kings here went / God your children bless Thee+
11 RIVER COMES FROM HOLY GHOST (Matt 13 16)
with Godīs voice, dove angel host
But the world is still heard most /God, some children bless Thee +
12 ON THE HOLY MOUNT MEET PROPHET (Matt 17 1)
cloud, transfiguration, sunlit
We get Gnosis, see some secret / God, your children bless Thee +
13 EUCHARIST AND CRUCIFIXION (Matt 26. 26)
Bring the mystic benediction
Spirit-Self gets resurrection / God, your children bless Thee +
14 TRINITY YOU HEAR OUR PRAYER
YOU WILL WITH US PROBLEMS SHARE
HOLDING US IN LOVING CARE
GOD , YOUR CHILDREN BLESS THEE +
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TANTUM ERGO (Incense if offered. During the second line all may bow in adoration)
Therefore we before God bending
This great Sacrament revere
Faith, our outward sense befriending,
Makes our inward vision clear
Human limits have their ending
Christ is incarnated here
Glory let us give, and blessing
To the Father and the Son
Honour, might and praise addressing
While eternal ages run;
Ever, too, His Love confessing
Who from both with Both is One. Amen
P Thou didst give them bread from heaven
C Containing within itself all sweetness
P O Lord Christ, Thou Hidden Dweller in the human spirit
C Open thine eyes in us, that we may see
P O God, who in the wonderful Sacrament of the altar hast
left us a living memorial of thine eternal Sacrifice
we will so venerate the sacred mystery of Thy
Body and Blood that we may ever perceive within ourselves
the power of Thy indwelling Life and thus by the glad pouring out
of our lives in sacrifice may know ourselves to be one with Thee
and through Thee with all that lives who livest and reignest
with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God throughout
all ages of ages.. C Amen
THE ASCRIPTION
P To the most holy and venerable Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Three Persons in one God; to Christ, our Lord, and wise Counceller
The heavenly Prince of Peace, to the seven mighty spirits before the throne
And to the glorious assembly of just men made perfect, the Watchers,
the Saints, the holy Ones, be praise unceasing from every living being
and honour might and glory henceforth and for evermore. C Amen
THE SOLEMN SACRAMENTAL BENEDICTION
(Incense may be offered. Bells may be used)
And the monstrance is afterwards replaced in the tabernacle or veiled
PSALM (all stand and sing or read)
(Antiphon): O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord
1/ O Praise the Lord, all ye His servants: praise Him, all ye nations
2/ For His lovingkindness is ever more and more towards us.
And the truth of the Lord endureth for ever
Glory be to the Father and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be; world without end. Amen
(Antiphon: P O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord
CLOSING HYMN (E g at procession from the altar)
Closed is the solemn hour. The sacred rites are done:
Ad lo! The music of Thy power Thrills through us every one
O Master, let that harmony Sing through the lives we lead for Thee !
And now with reverent pace, Our strength renewed by Thine,
Devoted guardians of Thy Grace, Quit we this holy shrine
And pass into the silent night To be the bearers of Thy light.