| Johannes Baptist Alzog - 1912 - 832 páginas
...the Catholic Church in her service during Advent, when she sings again the anthem of the prophet, " Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the...the Just; let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior."* Then the Son of God quitted the eternal mansions of His Father, and " appeared," as St. Augustine... | |
| Antonio Rosmini - 1913 - 216 páginas
...cannot conceive it. This joy must have been to her a foretaste of the bliss of Heaven. (Letters 5071.) Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the...: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour. (Isaias xlv 8.) 19. Solitude is dear to me, because by its means we can plunge into deep thought and... | |
| Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 872 páginas
...this purpose the verse is divided into the versicle, "Rorate coeli desuper et nubes pluant justum" (Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just), and the response: "Aperiatur terra et germinet salvatorem" (Let the earth be opened and send forth... | |
| Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - 898 páginas
...profit by that blessed event, but we are daily made to sigh with the Fathers of old, 'Send down the dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One: let the earth be opened, and bud forth the Redeemer.1 The Collects on three of the four Sundays... | |
| Charles Jerome Callan - 1916 - 392 páginas
...order of Melchisedech." — Venerable Bede. The desired of all Nations shall come. — Agg. II, 8. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the...spring up together: I, the Lord, have created Him. — Is. XLV, 8. THE BIRTH OF JESUS Christ was not born according to the common course of Nature. As... | |
| Josephine Van Dyke Brownson - 1918 - 216 páginas
...of Juda lost its power, as Jacob had prophesied. Surely the time was come for the Messias to appear! "Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just." (Isai. xlv, 8.) The Commandments of God are ten: (1) I am the Lord thy God: Thou shalt not have strange... | |
| Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1923 - 594 páginas
...Advent ; and once more, as we enter on this holy season, we have been chanting the old familiar words, " Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down the just One ; let the earth open and bud forth the Saviour " (Isa. xlv. 8) ; " Send forth the... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1888 - 800 páginas
...during the whole year, in expectation of His annual Christmas coming, sing the anthem of the prophet: " Drop down dew ye heavens, from above, and let the...let the earth be opened, and bud forth a Saviour! " To sum up. We find that, by nature, man is not inclined to infidelity, but to religion. 'This universal... | |
| Bruno Martin Hagspiel - 1925 - 354 páginas
...Niigata mission entrusted to the care of our Society. Rotate coeli desuper et nubes pluant justum: "Drop down dew, ye heav'ens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just One!" The Advent Antiphon seemed especially well adapted and fitting for my contemplation. Alma Redemptoris... | |
| 1928 - 430 páginas
...refreshment of the dew, and the personage in view is, besides the Saviour, John the Baptist. The Introit is: Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Righteous One; let the earth open and send forth a Saviour." For the third and fourth Sundays the Invitatory... | |
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