[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Knitting A Conundrum]

If you can, play this Youtubes in the background when you read this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pkOKWgu-m8
(notes about the latin at the bottom)


Miserare Nobis
(a meditation on world events, and the poem Dies Irae, the day of wrath)

Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

Hear our prayer, O Lord,
And let our cry come unto thee.

The day of tears,
the day of ashes,
the day trembling seizes us,
clamor meus ad te veniat.
the hand of Cain upon his brother
Memorare, O pie Jesu, Domine,
Clamouring in a wailing of tears,
and blood and pain,
anger and angst,
pain,
the cry of despair,
how our cry comes to thee,
Lacrimosa die alla,
every day,
the day of tears,
ashes,
ex favilla,
dust,
at our hand,
the all too willing tool of darkness.

Miserare nobis.


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Notes:

Misarere Nobis - have mercy on us. Part of the Agnus dei - Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Domine, exaudi orationem meam - Lord, hear my prayer from psalm 102
clamor meus ad te veniat. from Psalm 102 Let my cry come unto you

Memorare, O pie Jesu, Domine - Remember, O compasionate Jesus, Lord. A number of prayers start out Memorare, remember. But O pie Jesu, Domine is from the Dies Irae, where the person praying asks Jesus to remember him on that day of wrath.

Lacrimosa die alla - the day of tears. Lifted from the Dies Irae, referring to the grief on the day of judgment

ex favilla, from or out of ashes (also from the Dies Irae, and harkening back to Ash Wednesday, where ashes are worn to remind us of our humanity and mortality, and the need to turn away from our sins and repent)