{"id":4903,"date":"2015-06-08T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-05-10T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:43:20","slug":"adoro-te-devote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2015\/06\/08\/adoro-te-devote\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoro Te Devote"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe Feast of Corpus Christi can
\nnever be separated from St Thomas Aquinas, who is remembered with pride and joy
\nby Dominicans as the author of the Office and Liturgy of the Feast of the Most
\nPrecious Body and Blood of Christ. The tender and childlike devotion shining
\nthrough each strophe of verse is matched only by the totality of the gift that
\nGod bestows upon those who approach this Sacred Banquet.<\/div>\n
\n
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\n<\/a>The days following Trinity Sunday
\ncall particularly to mind the wonderful things of God \u2013 O res mirabilis<\/i> \u2013 as the Panis
\nAngelicus<\/i> hymns so sublimely. Here in Tynong, the Sisters have had the
\nextraordinary privilege of having the Feast of Corpus Christi celebrated in a
\ngrand way: a Solemn High Mass and Procession of the Blessed Sacrament across
\nthe whole span of St Thomas Aquinas College grounds was celebrated; the parish
\nchurch of Corpus Christi had the 40 Hours Devotion and its attendant liturgies
\nand devotions crowned by the First Holy Communions of 26 Year 2 boys and girls
\non Sunday, followed by a procession from the Church to the Convent.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nFor the Sisters too, Corpus Christi
\nwas a day of rejoicing \u2013 we welcomed our newest postulant, Miss Catherine Ryan,
\nwho hails from New South Wales, to our growing family. This brings the number
\nof Sisters currently residing in Rosary Convent to the very nice prime number
\nof 19. More Sisters may mean less room in our already very cramped Refectory
\nand Chapel, but it also means more hands lifted up to Heaven to draw down
\ngraces from the throne of God.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nChrist is to us, as He was to the
\ndisciples at Emmaus, the companion of our journey, God with us<\/i>. For Dominicans especially, devotion to the Holy
\nEucharist is part of the very fabric of Dominican life and spirituality.
\nScarcely has the day begun before the bell calls us to prayer in the chapel,
\nwhere we beg God\u2019s blessing for the day while we cast ourselves upon our knees
\nin adoration and throw, as it were, both body and soul into the worship of
\nUncreated Beauty.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nO Sacrum Convivium\u2026 O Sacred Banquet, in which Christ is received, the
\nmemory of His Passion renewed<\/span><\/i>\u2026 these are the words that spring from our lips each time we assemble in
\nchoir to offer to the Triune Godhead the sacrifice of praise, the Divine
\nOffice. Thus gathered before His Presence, we incline ourselves profoundly in
\nadoration of the Sacred Mysteries wrought by God, acknowledging the greatness
\nand the goodness of He Who loves us, uniting our voices with that of the
\nangelic chorus that cry Sanctus, Sanctus,
\nSanctus<\/i> unceasingly before the throne of the Divine Majesty.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
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\nBefore the Tabernacle, let us enter
\ninto that darkness of Faith and into the sacred silence of the Eucharistic
\nmystery. The little door of the Tabernacle opens into the Infinite, and the
\nlife that pulsates in the Host is that of the
\nHeart of Jesus Christ<\/i>, in Whom every prayer and work of ours both begins
\nand ends, the sum and term of our Christian life upon this earth. The Lord of
\nHosts, Verbum supernum prodiens \u2013 the
\nWord of God proceeding forth<\/i> \u2013 tiny and Immaculate, descending lightly into
\nthe hands of His priest.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n<\/a>Adoro Te<\/span><\/i>\u2026! Such
\nthe cry of the soul who approaches the altar to receive her Lord and God, whose
\nvery marrow revolves around and is sustained by the Bread of Life Himself. Let
\nus then go before the Golden Door \u2013 the door of the Tabernacle \u2013 and say to Him
\nWho dwells within, \u201cIn Thee I put my
\ntrust<\/i>.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n(More pictures to come soon… stay tuned!)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Feast of Corpus Christi can never be separated from St Thomas Aquinas, who is remembered with pride and joy by Dominicans as the author of the Office and Liturgy of the Feast of the Most Precious Body and Blood of Christ. The tender and childlike devotion shining through each strophe of verse is matched … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convent-life","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}