Four Lectures on the Offices and Ceremonies of Holy Week, as Performed in the Papal ChapelsCharles Dolman, 1839 - 183 páginas |
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Página 50 - LORD, raise up, we pray thee, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us ; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us, through the satisfaction of thy Son our LORD : to whom, with thee and the HOLY GHOST, be honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
Página 49 - Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.
Página 34 - Most of you are aware that some years ago the entire church of St. Peter's was lighted up on Thursday and Friday evenings of Holy Week, by one huge brazen cross, studded with lamps, and hung below the dome. The play of light and shadow, in bold masses, edged bluffly one by another, through the aisles, was splendid beyond description. Now it is certain that Canova designed the beautiful monument of Rezzonico (Clement XIII.), its fine lions and reclining genius, with an eye, most particularly, to the...
Página 177 - Elizabeth, and in conclusion, holding up the crucifix, exclaimed, "As thy arms, O God, were stretched out upon the cross, so receive me into the arms of thy mercy, and forgive me my sins.
Página 48 - ... is exhibited which will defy all rivalry from the fairest specimens of uninspired poetry. The service of the Church is throughout eminently poetical. Not a portion of its office is without some hymn, often of singular beauty ; and it would be easy to point out a tendency to poetical construction even in many of its prayers, litanies and antiphons. But the dramatic power, such as I have described it, runs through the service in a most marked manner, and must be kept in view for its right understanding....
Página 160 - This, however, was far from being the case. For the Church, with a holy ingenuity, was able to prolong the sacred character of these days throughout the year ; and to make the lessons we have seen taught by them enduring and continued. Every one, I presume, is aware, that Sunday is but a weekly repetition, through the year, of Easter-day ; for the Apostles transferred the sabbatical rest from the last to the first day of the week to commemorate our Lord's resurrection. Now, a similar spirit consecrated,...
Página 57 - John, in the service of these two days. This is performed by three interlocutors, in the habit of deacons, who distribute among themselves the parts as follows. The narrative is given by one in a strong manly tenor voice ; the words of our Saviour are chaunted in a deep solemn bass, and whatever is spoken by any other person is given by the third in a high contralto. This at once produces a dramatic effect : each part has its particular cadence, of old, simple, but rich chaunt, suited to the character...
Página 47 - I make no reference whatever to outward display ; and I choose that epithet for the reason already given, that the poverty of language affords me no other for my meaning. The object and power of dramatic poetry consist in its being not merely descriptive but representative ; and that, not only when reduced to action, but even when only consisting of words. Its character is to bear away the imagination and soul to the view of what others witnessed, and excite in us, through their words, such impressions...
Página 122 - ... whereof have been preserved in the Holy Week service ; but here is an additional obstacle to our discovery of their origin. For, as in the former, there was no particular necessity for ascertaining the Church from which any special ceremony was received ; so here the modesty, or, more christianly to speak, the humility, of the authors, led them to conceal, in every way, their names; so that while every one admires those sweet, and often sublime compositions, such as are also the Dies Tree, Stabat...
Página 60 - In the sixteenth, nothing could exceed the soft and moving tone in which the words, ' Hail, King of the Jews' are uttered. With all the expression belonging to their character, they powerfully draw the soul to utter in earnest what was intended in blasphemy. But towards the end these choruses increase in length, in richness, and variety. The seventeenth and eighteenth are masterpieces ; they are bolder in their transitions and most happy in their resolutions, and their final cadences swelling, majestic...