{"id":30865,"date":"2014-05-29T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30865"},"modified":"2014-05-30T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:16:37","slug":"ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/ascension\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ascension\"<\/a>The poetic text of\u00a0Jesu, Nostra Redemptio<\/em> sets the stage for articulating our Christian journey following the path set out by Our Lord in following Him. This text is truly an Ascension Thursday text. This journey of faith in following Jesus is a central aspect of our Christian faith that bespeaks of our desire to live in hope. The great Mother of our Savior and the apostles in the image recognize the accent of truth that is in the Divine Person of Jesus.<\/p>\n

Ascension Thursday has a sadness to it, as the disciples part with Christ’s bodily presence among them even with the promise that the Great Comforter will be sent. It sounds strange to say “sadness” viz. the joy of the resurrection. As one theologian-friend said of the liturgical texts of the Byzantine Church, the Ascension has its “deepest theology of the feast in its Kontakion (…You ascended in glory, O Christ our God, not being parted from those who love You, but remaining with them and crying: \u201cI am with you and no one will be against you!\u201d). And yet, “parting is such sweet sorrow!”<\/p>\n

Christians have an extended journey of conversion to make each year with Lent and then Eastertide, a time more intensely filled with anticipation and longing for the Divine Presence. Eastertide is not a spiritual time of standing back from spiritual work after Lent is over, but these 50 days are a new and intense phase of the Christian journey. One just has to think of the scriptures we heard proclaimed at Mass and the Divine Office during Easter. Nonetheless, the following text of Jesus our redemption sheds light and hope.<\/p>\n

Jesu, nostra redemptio,
\nAmor et desiderium,
\nDeus Creator omnium,
\nHomo in fine temporum.<\/em><\/p>\n

O Jesus, our redemption,
\nour love, and our desire,
\nGod, Creator of all things,
\nbecome Man in the fullness of time.<\/p>\n

Quae te vicit clementia,
\nUt ferres nostra crimina,
\nCrudelem mortem patiens,,
\nUt nos a morte tolleres!<\/em><\/p>\n

What tender love, what pity
\ncompelled Thee to bear our crimes,
\nto suffer a cruel death
\nthat we, from death, might be saved?<\/p>\n

Inferni claustra penetrans,
\nTuos captivos redimens,
\nVictor triumpho nobili
\nAd dextram Patris residens:<\/em><\/p>\n

Into death\u2019s dark cloister didst Thou descend,
\nand from it captives free didst bring;
\nThy triumph won, Thou didst take Thy place,
\nThou, the Victor, at the Father\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Ipse te cogat pietas,
\nUt mala nostra superes,
\nParcendo, et voti compotes
\nNos tuo vultu saties.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Twas a tender love, a costly compassion
\nthat pressed Thee our sorrows to bear;
\ngranting pardon, Thou didst raise us up
\nto fill us full with the splendour of Thy face.<\/p>\n

Tu esto nostrum gaudium,
\nQui es futurus praemium:
\nSit nostra in te gloria
\nPer cuncta semper saecula.
\n<\/em>
\nThou art already the joy of all our days,
\nThou Who in eternity will be our prize;
\nlet all our glory be in Thee,
\nforever, and always, and in the age to come.<\/p>\n

The English text is translated by Fr Mark Daniel Kirby, OSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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