An invitation to learn two hymns for First Friday Devotion & Adoration, plus the words of our Lord according to St. Margaret Mary, Pope Pius XI & His Eminence Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto
In today's post, The Rosary Hour Podcast invites parish communities to rediscover "O Salutaris Hostia" & "Tantum Ergo" by St. Thomas Aquinas for an upcoming Reparation Mass.
THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST NEWSLETTER
30 outubro / 30 October 2022 [Sent by: E-mail]
ETERNAL WISDOM: “The Promises of Our Lord to Saint Margaret Mary
For Souls Devoted to His Sacred Heart”
1. "I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life."
2. "I will establish peace in their homes."
3. "I will comfort them in all their afflictions."
4. "I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all in death."
5. "I will bestow a large blessing upon all their undertakings."
6. "Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy."
7. "Tepid souls shall grow fervent."
8. "Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
9. "I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart shall be set up and honored.
10. "I will give to priests the gifts of touching the most hardened hearts.”
11. "Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.
12. "I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their sacraments; My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.
HYMNS IN LATIN FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION on FIRST FRIDAYS
In preparation for First Friday Devotion, we have included some YouTube videos teaching the melody & lyrics of two hymns.
“O Salutaris Hostia” and
“Tantum Ergo” .
We invite you to learn these two melodies by ear. Here is a DIGITAL HANDOUT of the lyrics by St. Thomas Aquinas.
Young children, especially those preparing for first Holy Communion, will enjoy learning this music for Eucharistic Adoration & First Friday Masses.
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“O Salutaris Hostia” / “O Saving Victim”, by: St. Thomas Aquinas
O Salutaris Hostia
Quae caeli pandis ostium:
Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium.
Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria,
Qui vitam sine termino
Nobis donet in patria.
Amen.
“Tantum Ergo” (video w/ Plain Song for ‘A CAPELLA’ performance)
Tantum Ergo by: St. Thomas Aquinas
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui:
Et antiquum documentum,
Novo cedat ritui:
Praestet fides supplementum
Sensuum defectui
Genitori, Genitoque
Laus et jubilatio
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio:
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio.
Amen
Tantum Ergo (ENGLISH)
Down in adoration falling,
Lo! the sacred Host we hail;
Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,
Newer rites of grace prevail;
Faith for all defects supplying,
Where the feeble senses fail.
To the everlasting Father,
And the Son who reigns on high,
With the Holy Spirit proceeding
Forth from each eternally,
Be salvation, honor, blessing,
Might and endless majesty. Amen.
V. You have given them bread from heaven,
R. Having all delight within it.
Priest: Let us pray.
O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament
left us a memorial of your Passion:
grant, we implore you,
that we may so venerate
the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood,
as always to be conscious of the fruit of your Redemption.
You who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.
ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT:
FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTION LIVE STREAM OPTIONS (USA)
We invite you to join Fr. Chris Alar, MIC & the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy on their LIVESTREAM to partake in First Friday Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus every month at 8 p.m. EST - visit https://thedivinemercy.org.1 Fr. Chris began this tradition in 2021 with Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC. Please invite those who are sick, homebound, or without a First Friday mass option to tune-in for a spiritual talk and devotion walk through.
READINGS ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
FROM Pope Pius XI from his ENCYCLICAL “MISERENTISSIMUS REDEMPTOR”, ON REPARATION TO THE SACRED HEART of JESUS
Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by: Pope Pius XI
Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is most ungratefully repaid by such great forgetfulness, neglect and contempt, see, prostrate before Thy altars, we strive by special honor to make amends for the wicked coldness of men and the contumely with which Thy most loving Heart is everywhere treated.
At the same time, mindful of the fact that we too have sometimes not been free from unworthiness, and moved therefore with most vehement sorrow, in the first place we implore Thy mercy on us, being prepared by voluntary expiation to make amends for the sins we have ourselves committed, and also for the sins of those who wander far from the way of salvation, whether because, being obstinate in their unbelief, they refuse to follow Thee as their shepherd and leader, or because, spurning the promises of their Baptism, they have cast off the most sweet yoke of Thy law.
We now endeavor to expiate all these lamentable crimes together, and it is also our purpose to make amends for each one of them severally: for the want of modesty in life and dress, for impurities, for so many snares set for the minds of the innocent, for the violation of feast days, for the horrid blasphemies against Thee and Thy saints, for the insults offered to Thy Vicar and to the priestly order, for the neglect of the Sacrament of Divine love or its profanation by horrible sacrileges, and lastly for the public sins of nations which resist the rights and the teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast instituted.
Would that we could wash away these crimes with our own blood! And now, to make amends for the outrage offered to the Divine honor, we offer to Thee the same satisfaction which Thou didst once offer to Thy Father on the Cross and which Thou dost continually renew on our altars, we offer this conjoined with the expiations of the Virgin Mother and of all the Saints, and of all pious Christians, promising from our heart that so far as in us lies, with the help of Thy grace, we will make amends for our own past sins, and for the sins of others, and for the neglect of Thy boundless love, by firm faith, by a pure way of life, and by a perfect observance of the Gospel law, especially that of charity; we will also strive with all our strength to prevent injuries being offered to Thee, and gather as many as we can to become Thy followers.
Receive, we beseech Thee, O most benign Jesus, by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Reparatress, the voluntary homage of this expiation, and vouchsafe, by that great gift of final perseverance, to keep us most faithful until death in our duty and in Thy service, so that at length we may all come to that fatherland, where Thou with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest God for ever and ever. Amen.2
CARDINAL COLLINS ON THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
We invite you to revisit the PASTORAL LETTER by His Eminence, CARDINAL COLLINS (ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO), who continues our Micro Masterclass Series this week with a new episode for the Digital Café.3
His Eminence guides our understanding of Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (2021) in “Heart Speaks to Heart” (PDF DOWNLOAD).
We invite you to WATCH THE DAILY MASS at the CATHEDRAL OF CARDINAL COLLINS: https://www.stmichaelscathedral.com/live/ 12:10 p.m. EST via Livestream, and on Sundays, 5 p.m. CET / 12 PM EST.
Link to today’s Solemn mass in Toronto, Canada at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica. We invite you to listen to the beautiful choir for Sun. 30 October and to hear another powerful sermon by His Eminence, Cardinal Collins, about the grace of humility and zeal for Christ as he reflects on today’s Gospel.
- NOTE: The sermon begins at 36:04, though the link jumps immediately to the Gospel read by His Eminence.
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