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The Precious Stream

1/7/2018

 
Frs Kenyon
Today, in the Calendar of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, is the feast of the Most Precious Blood. From 1849 to 1969 it was part of the General Roman Calendar, but was removed on account of its commemoration, as a theme, in the Masses of the Passion, Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It remains however, in the Ordinary Form, as a Votive Mass, but it does not feature, under this title, in the Ordinariate’s liturgical usage. Rather, in Divine Worship: The Missal, provision is made for a Votive Mass of the Five Wounds, a medieval devotion, popular in England especially, which was found in the missal of the Sarum Use. The emblem of the Five Wounds was notably employed on the banner rallying the faithful - clergy, religious, and lay - in the famous Pilgrimage of Grace between 1536-1537 which saw unsuccessful uprisings across Northern England in protest at Henry VIII’s break with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Highly appropriate, then, that such a hallowed devotion, dear to Ecclesia Anglicana, should be revived in a collection intended to preserve, liturgically, the English spiritual tradition within the Catholic Church. The Collect and Postcommunion for the Mass of the Five Wounds in ​Divine Worship make specific mention of the Precious Blood, and whilst there is no feast of the same, it would be both suitable and felicitous to offer this beautiful Mass in this month of July, which remains dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Christ.
1. Glory be to Jesus,
Who, in bitter pains,
Poured for me the life-blood
From his sacred veins.

2. Grace and life eternal
In that Blood I find;
Blest be his compassion
Infinitely kind.
 
3. Blest through endless ages
Be the precious stream,
Which from endless torments
Doth the world redeem.
 
4. Abel’s blood for vengeance
Pleaded to the skies;
But the Blood of Jesus
For our pardon cries.
5. Oft as it is sprinkled
On our guilty hearts,
Satan in confusion
Terror-struck departs.
 
6. Oft as earth exulting
Wafts its praise on high,
Hell with terror trembles,
Heaven is filled with joy.
 
7. Lift ye then your voices;
Swell the mighty flood;
Louder still and louder
Praise the precious Blood.

18th century
translated by
Edward Caswall Cong. Orat., 1814-1878
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