Bulletins

March 3, 2013

Sede vacante. The seat is vacant.

The awkward situation of there being no Pope is symbolized by the umbrella over the crossed keys of Peter. With no visible head we believers in the Faith preached by the Apostles know well that the Church is a work of the Holy Spirit. The invisible Head and Divine Founder of the Church promised to send us the Holy Ghost: “And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to dwell with you forever, the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him” (John 14:16). With the 9th century hymn of the saintly Archbishop of Mainz Rabanus Maurus we beg the Lord to continue to treat us better than we deserve:

Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,
and in our souls take up Thy rest;
come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

O comforter, to Thee we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
and sweet anointing from above.

Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;
Thou, finger of God's hand we own;
Thou, promise of the Father, Thou
Who dost the tongue with power imbue.

Kindle our sense from above,
and make our hearts o'erflow with love;
with patience firm and virtue high
the weakness of our flesh supply.

Far from us drive the foe we dread,
and grant us Thy peace instead;
so shall we not, with Thee for guide,
turn from the path of life aside.

Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow
the Father and the Son to know;
and Thee, through endless times confessed,
of both the eternal Spirit blest.

Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
with Thou, O Holy Comforter,
henceforth by all in earth and heaven.

Amen.

God bless you.

Fr. Christopher J. Pollard

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