[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)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[.30Carbine]

Thank you for that sharing. There is a horrific and just picturing of ashes and death in 2 Maccabees 13 -

There is at that place a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes,
with a circular rim sloping down steeply on all sides toward the ashes.

A man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for certain other crimes
is brought up there and then hurled down to destruction.

In such a manner was Menelaus, the transgressor of the law, fated to die;
he was deprived even of decent burial.

It was altogether just that he who had committed so many sins
against the altar with its pure fire and ashes
should meet his death in ashes.