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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.