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Ancient ceremonies at Rome Service in the Sixtine chapel Passio Sermon and indulgence Prayers for all mankind exposition of the cross; ancient crucifixes and crosses adoration of the cross; its antiquity Palestrina's improperii, Trisagion chant of the hymn Pange lingua gloriosi lauream etc, Procession of the B. Sacrament Mass of the Presanctified, Vespers Tenebræ Veneration of the principal relics at S Peter's Grounds of belief in the genuineness of relics 1.
7 De Pallatio Soldani, et nominibus praeteritorum Soldanorum. 8 De Campo Balsami in Egypto. 9 De Nilo fluuio, et Egypti territorio. 10 De conductu Soldani. 11 De Monasterio Sinay. 12 Iter per desertum Sinay, vsque in Iudeam. 13 De ciuitate Bethleem, et semita, vsque in Ierusalem. 14 De Ecclesia gloriosi sepulchri Domini in vrbe Ierusalem.
It begins with the words PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI. They say it is the highest glory of the hymnal. It is an intricate and soothing hymn. I like it; but there is no hymn that can be put beside that mournful and majestic processional song, the VEXILLA REGIS of Venantius Fortunatus.
When the sacred college has finished the adoration, the choir having ended the improperii sings the anthem Crucem tuam, the psalm Deus misereatur nostri, the hymn Pange lingua gloriosi lauream certaminis etc. Towards the end of this beautiful ceremony the candles are lighted, the deacon spreads out the corporal as usual, placing the purificator near it.
But the most common fame went, that he was sticken with a dagger by the handes of the duke of Gloceter." "Parcat Deus", adds he, "spatium poenitentiae Ei donet, Quicunque sacrilegas manus in Christum Domini ausus est immittere. Unde et agens tyranni, patiensque gloriosi martyris titulum mereatur."
Sed ex eo tempore quo ibat ad Ieroboam, filium Nebat, vituli aurei fabricati sunt, et a decem tribubus adorata, vocata est Bethauen, id est, Domus Idoli, quae ante vocabatur Domus Dei. Ieronymus. Sed et Ecclesia aedificata est vbi dormiuit Iacob, pergens Mesopotamiam, vbi et ipsi loco Bethel, id est, domus Dei nomen imposuit. De Ecclesia gloriosi Sepulchri Domini in vrbe Ierusalem.
Read over the grand Church hymns, the "Vexilla Regis," the "Pange lingua gloriosi lauream certaminis," or recall them in your memory their Passiontide echoes sound under the triumphant pealing of the bells of Easter and then be glad that one of your own poets has also sent down the ages the song of his love and his reverence.
Through the shafts of the pines we had caught glorious glimpses of the blue mountain world below us; but now the beech folded us in its arms, and whispered in our ears the legends of our Northern home. There, on the ridges of the Mysian Olympus, sacred to the bright gods of Grecian song, I found the inspiration of our darker and colder clime and age. "O gloriosi spiriti degli boschi!"