Posted on 06/30/2014 7:49:01 AM PDT by Salvation
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GOLDEN SEQUENCE
A name applied to the hymn Veni, Sancte Spiritus, et emitte coelitus (Come, Thou Holy Paraclete), which is sung on Pentecost Sunday.
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Come, of comforters the best, Of the soul the sweetest guest, Come in toil refreshingly: Thou in labor rest most sweet, Thou art shadow from the heat, Comfort in adversity.
O Thou Light, most pure and blest, Shine within the inmost breast Of Thy faithful company. Where Thou art not, man hath naught; Every holy deed and thought Comes from Thy divinity.
What is soilèd, make Thou pure; What is wounded, work its cure; What is parchèd, fructify; What is rigid, gently bend; What is frozen, warmly tend; Strengthen what goes erringly.
Fill Thy faithful, who confide In Thy power to guard and guide, With Thy sevenfold mystery. Here Thy grace and virtue send: Grant salvation to the end, And in Heav’n felicity.
Come Holy Spirit
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
Motet "Veni sancte Spiritus" by the great medieval English composer, John Dunstable (or Dunstaple), (c. 1390 – 24 December 1453). He followed his patron, the Duke of Bedford, to France with the English army, and arguably kick-started the entire Burgundian School of composition. We know he was popular because copies of his work show up in monasteries and libraries all over Europe.
Unfortunately not biblical like the Golden Chain:
Rom. 8:29ff
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, so what if the Roman Catholic Organization is against us?”
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Are these the lyrics?
Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest (Veni, Creator Spiritus)
Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,
and in our souls take up Thy rest;
come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
O comforter, to Thee we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
and sweet anointing from above.
Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;
Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;
Thou, promise of the Father, Thou
Who dost the tongue with power imbue.
Kindle our sense from above,
and make our hearts o’erflow with love;
with patience firm and virtue high
the weakness of our flesh supply.
Far from us drive the foe we dread,
and grant us Thy peace instead;
so shall we not, with Thee for guide,
turn from the path of life aside.
Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow
the Father and the Son to know;
and Thee, through endless times confessed,
of both the eternal Spirit blest.
Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
with Thou, O Holy Comforter,
henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.
Here is an absolutely literal translation:
Come, Holy Spirit,
send forth the heavenly
radiance of your light.
Come, father of the poor,
come, giver of gifts,
come, light of the heart.
Greatest comforter,
sweet guest of the soul,
sweet consolation.
In labor, [you are] rest,
in heat, temperance [in the sense of relief],
in tears, solace.
O most blessed light,
fill the inmost heart
of your faithful.
Without your grace,
there is nothing in us,
nothing that is not harmful.
Cleanse that which is dirty,
water that which is dry,
heal that which is injured.
Bend that which is rigid,
warm that which is cold,
correct what is wrong ["straighten what is bent"].
Give to your faithful,
who trust in you,
the sevenfold gifts.
Grant the reward of virtue,
grant the deliverance of salvation,
grant eternal joy.
("Amen, alleluia.")
Which is why sometimes I think it would just be easier to go back to Latin. :-D
The Golden Sequence is so called just because it is such a wonderful poem and melody - like the Golden Age or the Golden Rule.
If you just think of it as a hymn heralding the reading of the Gospel, it will probably bother you less.
Definitely a possibility.
Thank you for your concern, but the point I am making is that this "hymn" is filled with remarks which are not the Gospel and thus not biblical. They do not represent the message delivered once for all in the Scriptures although they may represent the gospel as Catholics understand it developed by their traditions. If one reads Paul very carefully, it is evident that the "monk's" view of the Gospel does not comport with that which is described by Paul. So, thank you, but we don't share the same understanding of what it means to be a "reading of the Gospel".
How many times does St. Paul use the words “spirit?” This is the Holy Spirit.
??? Do you have the right post?
Yes, it sounded like you were denying the Holy Spirit and praise thereof which this thread is about.
You evidently work a lot on "sound" and not much on substance. Please re-read my post and notice I revere, adore, cherish the Holy Spirit of Truth. But, the "hymn" is not full of that, but of a Catholic tradition view of the "gospel". The distance that "hymn" is from the Truth is the issue I am pointing out.
We adhere to the teachings of the Church Universal, including those that were established and taught by the Apostles but (as acknowledged by the Scriptures themselves) passed on by word of mouth and not by writing.
But the Golden Sequence, allowing for poetic license which is found in just about every hymn, does not contradict anything in Scripture. The sevenfold gifts are mentioned by Paul himself.
Your remarks disclose a misunderstanding of the Scriptures, common for Romanists.
The Church stands on Scripture, Tradition, and Right Reason. So she has always stood and will always stand.
Well, that is impressive...especially the 12 year Bible pin from Sunday School. I suppose that means, however, that because you esteem academics so highly you will defer to my degree in Theology and 20 year teaching history.
Too bad your extensive historical reading did not include pope Clement XI's Constitution Unigenitus which denounced Bible reading. And, if you actually had read the Bible (carefully, and without the Romanist propaganda machine guiding you) you would find that there is no support in there for the sacerdotalism, the genuflecting, the seven sacraments, the papalism, the candles, the icons, the canonization of men/women, the absolution of sin by men, the Mariolatry, or any of the other 6000 aberrant doctrines and traditions.
Newman was not a believer in salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ alone, any more than the other "religious" men who held to a self-generated righteousness. Thus, he is likely screaming in the lost pit of darkness as we post. The Gospel has escaped Rome and apparently always will.
Why the hatred dripping from every pore? I try to be friendly and even a little jocular in exchanges with you (you don't seriously think that I prize my Sunday School pin and bars more than my advanced degree?). But you always respond with this venomous condemnation - ravings against Catholic practices, Cardinal Newman in hell, etc.
I have never felt it necessary, advisable, or even charitable to wander over to whatever threads you and your compatriots use to discuss your beliefs and thunder condemnation and destruction. I also have not felt it necessary to lie and distort the teachings of your church.
To snatch away from the hands of Christians the New Testament, or to hold it closed against them by taking away from them the means of understanding it, is to close for them the mouth of Christ.
To forbid Christians to read Sacred Scripture, especially the Gospels, is to forbid the use of light to the sons of light, and to cause them to suffer a kind of excommunication."
- Clement XI, Unigenitus
As usual, I fear you are either egregiously misinformed, or . . .
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