Introduction
Nostra aetate!
Nostra aetate, nostra aetate,
videmus salvationem nostrum
in Deo Patre, Filio, et
Spiritu Sancto Paraclito. Amen.
Invocation
Veni Creator Spiritus,
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia,
quae Tu creasti
pectra!
Triune God in
splendid Glory unapproachable,
made bearable
by cloth of poor humanity
made triumphant
and incorrupt in Christ,
let my tiny
prayer but touch Thine ear,
as the worlds
wheel perfectly beneath
Thy governance,
and hear this prayer
I raise from
deepest depth of soul and heart.
For I, Thy
bard, am anointed to awesome task,
to blue shadow
lay upon these white pages
of Thy
Creation, oh my God, the perfection
that defies all
taming, all rhyme and rhythm
of human hands,
and limit what is limitless,
marshal the
ever-changing, fickle waters,
the fury of
storms and quake of startled
hearts, when
they see again the Temple
of Thine Glory!
But remember, o my
God,
the purest womb
and perfect virginity that
once bound You
by Your Will to the Earth,
and thus
restored it to perfect innocence.
Though so
lacking, possess the darkened
places of my
mind with uncreated light:
with touch so
mighty as to sanctify the
unworthy, make
me again Tabernacle
of Thine
Spirit. Humility sharpen to
face Thine
Oceanic servant, pride
and all
dullness dispel with fresh love,
renew my eye
and ear with curious,
piercing fire,
and thus hand empower
to command the
world be bound
in the epic of
the ocean. Stella Maris,
Mary! Pray for
this conversion with
whole host of
heaven, Florian first
among them.
Rank me in thy noble
heritage, the
fishermen of souls and fish,
and guide my
hand with steadfast supplication
upon the swath
of white and sapphire, both
unforgiving,
and both steps to highest heaven.
Calliope, where
you faint before the daring
task, let the
angels take us both above heaven’s orb.
Vision come and
prophesy the happy gospel
Armed with
skill of divine fear and gentleness:
Now burn soul,
and speak in tongues of fire!
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