It’s nice, isn’t it, that on the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, the magnificent Benedictine Pope, the liturgical and ecclesiastical reformer, we catch a glimpse of the Pope Emeritus, to whom these verses from the hymn to St. Gregory, Anglorum iam Apostolus, equally apply.
From riches and from wealth you turned.
The glory of the world you spurned,
That you might follow, being poor,
Prince Jesus, who was poor before.
This Christ, High Pontifex, decreed
That you would take His Church’s lead,
And learn St. Peter’s steps to tread:
The rule of all called in his stead.
You wondrously solved riddles deep:
The mystic secrets Scriptures keep,
For Truth Himself has taught you these:
The lofty sacred mysteries.
O Pontifex, our leader bright,
The Church’s honor and its light,
Through dangers let them all be brought,
The ones you carefully have taught.
The unborn Father let us praise,
And to His Son like glory raise,
And to their Equal, majesty.
All glory to the Trinity. Amen.
Thank you, Kathy.
I love and esteem our Holy Father, but I miss Papa Ratzinger….
I hope and pray that he will publish again, though it seems doubtful.
(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)