LXV. Cum vox sanguinis (Ymnus)
The Blood That Speaks to God
The blood of Ursula and her companions cries out before God's throne, awakening an ancient Trinitarian revelation that invites all to rejoice.
When the voice of the blood of Ursula and her innocent crowd rang out before God's throne, an ancient prophecy came through the root of Mamre in the true revelation of the Trinity, and said: This blood touches us; now let us all rejoice.✦
The Lamb's Gathering and the Sacrifice of Praise
The Lamb's gathering, the ram among thorns, and the calf sacrifice all point to a veiled revelation of God that priests proclaim without fully seeing.
And afterward the gathering of the Lamb came, through the ram hanging among thorns, and said: Let praise be in Jerusalem through the redness of this blood.✦✦ Then came the sacrifice of the calf, which the old law pointed to, a sacrifice of praise, clothed about with variety, and which used to veil the face of God from Moses, showing him only its back.✦ These are the priests, who show God through their tongues and yet cannot see Him perfectly.
Ursula Named a Dove in the Highest
The heavenly assembly declares that Ursula is named a Dove in the highest because she gathered an innocent crowd, and the Church is praised in this gathering.
And they said: O most noble crowd, this virgin who on earth is called Ursula is named a Dove in the highest, because she gathered an innocent crowd to herself.✦ O Church, you are praiseworthy in this crowd.
The Burning Bush and the First Root
The great crowd is signified by the burning bush and planted in the first root of humanity, and now all heavens and peoples are called to rejoice in their adornment.
A great crowd, which the burning bush that Moses had seen signifies, and which God had planted in the first root in the human being, whom He had formed from mud, so that it might live without union with man, when a most radiant voice cried out in purest gold, clothed about with topaz and sapphire in gold.✦✦ Now let all the heavens rejoice, and all the peoples, when they are adorned with them.
Amen
The hymn concludes with a simple Amen.
Amen.
Read the original Latin
Cum vox sanguinis Ursule et innocentis turbe eius ante thronum dei sonuit, antiqua prophetia venit per radicem Mambre in vera ostensione trinitatis et dixit: Iste sanguis nos tangit, nunc omnes gaudeamus. Et postea venit congregatio agni, per arietem in spinis pendentem et dixit: Laus sit in Ierusalem per ruborem huius sanguinis. Deinde venit sacrificium vituli, quod vetus lex ostendebat, sacrificium laudis, circumamicta varietate, et que faciem dei Moysi obnubilabat, dorsum illi ostendens. Hoc sunt sacerdotes, qui per linguas suas deum ostendunt et perfecte eum videre non possunt. Et dixerunt: O nobilissima turba, virgo ista que in terris Ursula vocatur in summis Columba nominatur, quia innocentem turbam ad se collegit. O ecclesia, tu es laudabilis in ista turba. Turba magna, quam imcombustus rubus, quem Moyses viderat, significat, et quam deus in prima radice plantaverat in homine, quem de limo formaverat, ut sine commixtione viri viveret, cum clarissima voce clamavit in purissimo auro, thopazio et saphiro circumamicta in auro. Nunc gaudeant omnes celi, et omnes populi cum illis ornentur.
Amen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gen.18.1-Gen.18.2 — Then the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, and he was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. Gen.18.2 — He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the entrance of the tent and bowed down to the ground.
- ↩Gen.22.13 — And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram, afterward, caught in the thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
- ↩John.1.29 — The next day he sees Jesus coming toward him and says, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
- ↩Exod.33.23 — And I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.
- ↩Matt.3.16 — And when Jesus had been baptized, he immediately went up from the water. And behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him.
- ↩Exod.3.2 — And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.
- ↩Gen.2.7 — Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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