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And what aucthoritie in the place above recited Christe comitted unto Peter, the same gave he also unto all the rest of his Apostles, John 20. verse 21. sayenge to them all: Whoesoever synnes yee remitte, they are remitted unto them; and whoesoever synnes yee retaine, they are retained.
Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison. Sursum Corda. Deus Refugium nostrum et virtus. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi miserere mihi. Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, miserere nobis. Ab infestationibus Daemonum, a ventura ira, a damnatione perpetua. Libera nos Domine. Quem quaerimus adjutorem nisi te Domine qui pro peccatis nostris juste irascaris?
The soft baritone of the Cardinal intoned a single phrase in the suspended silence. The censer took up the note in its delicate clink clink, as it swung to and fro in the hands of a fair-haired child. Then the organ, pausing an instant in a deep, mellow, long-drawn note, burst suddenly into a magnificent strain, and the choir sang forth, "Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison."
He listened, the rich, round notes thundered through the stillness with forceful and majestic harmony; anon, wierd tones, like the passionate lament of Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" floated around and above him: then, a silvery chorus of young voices broke forth in solemn unison: "Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison! Kyrie Eleison!"
It would be a liturgical improvement if the Litany, in its shortened form, were to end at the Christe, audi, and the minister directed to return, at this point, to the General Thanksgiving in the Morning Prayer.
A virgin mother gives him birth; And sin's dark bonds asunder torn, Sweet heaven again inclines to earth. Kyrie! hear! the sacred font Pours forth its saving waters free And Thou impressest on our front The sign that drives our foes away. Christe! anointed victim! Thou, Who in thy death bestowest life The healing remedy for woe Ah! earth with many a woe is rife.
The new grace and delicacy is upon every page of Chaucer. What was first Provencal and then French, became English when Chaucer touched it. "This ae nighte, this ae nighte, Every nighte and alle, Fire and sleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule," we now find English poets echoing Aucassin and Nicolette: "In Paradise what have I to win?
Whereby the holy fathers would vs to beleue, that there was not onely purchased cleane forgiuenesse of all smaller offences, or venialle sinnes: but also either presente recouerie, or a riper and gentler deathe. All the feastes and holydaies, throughout the yere, which the churche hath commaunded to be obserued and kept: beginne at the Aduente, or approache of Christe our Lorde.
"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, durch unsern Herr Jesu Christe. Amen;" words so familiar, yet never heard without a new thrill. They are slightly uncouth in several matters, these Feldpastoren, and would not quite suit sundry metropolitan charges one wots of.
Then his musical instinct awoke, and presently he took up the strain, voice and violin, accompanying the Tenor, who rowed on once more, while the river banks resounded with, "Christe audi nos, Christe exaudi nos," and re-echoed "Miserere nobis." At one point as they approached, a lady appeared suddenly, and stood with her hands clasped to her breast, looking and listening.
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