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"Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum ... dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris...." It was quite easy to follow their general drift. Anyone who had ever recited the Lord's Prayer in any language would realize that he was asking the Deity to forgive him his trespasses as he forgave those who trespassed against him.
But the marquis smiled, kept the silence for an instant, and then, in slow solemn voice, said: 'Scimus enim quoniam si terrestris domus nomus nostra hujus habitationis dissolvatur, quod aedificationem ex Deo habemus, domum non manufactam, aeternam in coelis. The clergymen grasped each other by the hand, then turning bowed together to the marquis, but the conversation was not resumed.
All right, but a gentle moisture breaks out all over you; and then something like a whistle or a cry, another gust of wind, perhaps; that accounts for the rustling that just made your heart roll over and tumble about, so that it felt more like a live rat under your ribs than a part of your own body; then a crash of something that has fallen, blown over, very likely Pater noster, qui es in coelis! for you are damp and cold, and sitting bolt upright, and the bed trembling so that the death-watch is frightened and has stopped ticking!
"Pater de coelis Deus, miserere nobis; Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, miserere nobis, Spiritus sancte Deus, miserere nobis; Sancte Trinitas unus Deus, miserere nobis" the Tenor sang softly to himself as he slowly pursued his way.
"Sancta Isolda, Sancta Isolda, Genetricis Ancilla," went the choir, "Ora, ora pro nobis." And then "Quoe de coelis volitans, Sacras manus agitans, Foves in suppliciis Me, ne extra gregulo Tuo unus ferulo Pereat in vitiis."... and so on. The youngsters sang with a good will, while Master Porges, as poet and man of piety, glowed in his skin.
Olive was aware of many faces, of the murmuring of a great crowd, and shame was added to the horror that held her fast. She folded her hands and tried to keep her eyes fixed upon them. Then she began to pray aloud. "Pater noster, qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum " The clear voice was tremulous at first, but it gathered strength as it went on, and Carmela said the words too.
It pleased our Lord to let me see the degree of glory to which some souls have been raised, showing them to me in the places they occupy. There is a great difference between one place and another. Ch. xxxiv. Dona Luisa de la Cerda, at Toledo. Ch. iv. section 6. 1 St. Peter ii. 11: "Advenas et peregrinos." Philipp. iii. 20: "Nostra autem conversatio in coelis est."
"A man of excellent parts, both in divinity and knowledge of the laws: very vigilant and active he was for the good both of the ecclesiastical and civil state." He was silenced during the civil war, but restored in 1660. On his tombstone, at Walthamstow, it is said "Templum Cathedrale Wellense reparavit, Episcopale Palatium exædificavit, coelis maturus terris valedixit an. æt. 94 salut. 1670."
Making the sign of the cross, he began the Lord's prayer in Latin: "Pater noster, qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tumm " The silence included all, even to the joyful little ones downstairs, and every voice was repeating in an undertone the same eternal words. "This is for Yves and Jean Gaos, my two brothers, who were lost in the Sea of Iceland.
With a faint sigh the priest's eyes opened and seemed to gaze for a moment on the crucifix standing in the bright light of the lamp. An expression of wonderful gentleness and calm overspread the refined features. "Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis." The words came faintly from the dying man's lips, the last syllables scarcely audible in the intense stillness.
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