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Jesus, the Mass, and Johanna Hiffernan:
Study of Paschal Colours in
Finnegans Wake
“You know the dinkel dale of Luggelaw? Well, there once
dwelt a local heremite, Michael Arklow was his river-end name,
(with many a sigh I aspersed his lavabibs!)” (203.17-19)
The Asperges
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On Sundays before the principal Mass the church and
congregation
are sprinkled with holy water.
Antiphon
P.
Asperges me
C.
Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor: lavabis me, et super
nivem dealbabor.
Ps.
Miserere mei, Romanes eunzt
domus Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.
Antiphon
P.
Thou shalt sprinkle me,
C.
Lord, with hyssop and I shall be cleansed; thou shalt
wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
Ps.
Have mercy on me, O. God, according to thy great
mercy.
Introduction
Before proceeding in this exercise of recreating the eclesiastic
atmosphere which permeates areas of Finnegans Wake and
stirring the memories of those who attended mass before 1962,
I would like to point out that Joyce, who appears to have had a
good grasp of Catholic lithurgy (as did the Church on him),
used the Catechism, popular conceptions and misconceptions,
iconography, myth, and scholarly works to relate what may, or
may not, have happened on the 11th hour of the year of our
Lord 30; or any other year for that matter. I will try as I can, by
“fadograph”, to revisit the church of the past and its Tridentine
Mass. The treatment is brief and I’ve had to ignore a great deal,
as it often has to be with rendering Finnegans Wake. A more
complete version for next Easter? Maybe? Will I block your
door with my foot to witness any of the major religions
embracing Jesus? Certainly not. No one needs worry. The
message is universal.
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The Tridentine Mass. The Mass before Vatican 2 reforms, 1962.
P
=priest,
C
=choir. Red and black as printed in the Missal. The first words of the mass.
www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lmass/ord.htm
Kyrie-2.mp3
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Joahanahanahana
"others gigging gaily, some
sedated in sedans: my priccoping gents, aroger, aroger, my dam-
sells softsidesaddled, covertly, covertly, and Lawdy Dawe a perch
behind: the mule and the hinny and the jennet and the mustard
nag and piebald shjelties and skewbald awknees steppit lively
(lift ye the left and rink ye the right! ) for her pleashadure: and
she lalaughed in her diddydid domino to the switcheries of the
whip. Down with them! Kick! Playup!
Mattahah! Marahah! Luahah! Joahanahanahana!" (554.01-10)
¿“Joahanahanahana!”? The exclamation, end of chapter, seems
to shout עשו ה אנ ! Ὡ
! Hosanna!, teasing us with
Joshua (Yehoshua) and Hoshana', recalling the Hoshanah
Rabbah of Jewish lithurgy and Jesus. “...hanahanahana!” acts as
a triple exclamation of adoration, mimicking Hosanna,
Hosanna, Hosanna! in the highest or, then again, evokes the
three rings of the Sanctus bells after the Preface of the Most
Holy Trinity just before the Sanctus in the mass. For that
matter, it can be seen as mimicking the reoccurring theme of
three, in symbol and in dialog, throughout the Roman Catholic
Mass. And a few lines prior, p.553, Joyce writes: “velkommen
all hankinhunkn in this vongn of Hoseyeh!”
Furthermore, Hosanna is strongly associated with
the Feast of Palm Sunday (heorte ton baion, Secundus floricultus,
Flower Sunday, Willow Sunday, Dimanche des ramaux, Pâques
fleuries, Dominica florida, Blumensonntag), and the mass in
celebration of the last visit of our Savior to Jerusalem: seated
side-saddle on a donkey (Fig. 1
2
), greeted by a crowd laying
palm fronds before Him, “and I laid down before
the trotters” (553.28), (and if the trotters are pig feet and not
donkeys?) and waving willow, palm, and myrtle branches;
throwing flowers with ululations of joyous adulation filling
the air; eating fruit, dancing in the street. Gibbon
3
and Jones
et al.
4
examine in great detail the reasons for the crowd's
interest in Jesus’ message.
The following, from the first four books of the New
Testament
5,
may be helpful in recalling the events of Jesus’
2
Missel Quotidien et Vespéral, 1947. Dom Gérard, L'Abbaye de Clervaux (ed.),
Apostolat de la Presse, Montréal, 1519p.
3
Gibbon, C. 1776. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Penguin Books, London, v. 1, ch.15.
www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume1/cntnt15.htm
4
Jones, T., Chapman, G., Cleese, J., Gilliam, T., Idle, E., and Palin, M. 1979. Life of
Brian. Handmade Films, London, 98 min.
5
Mamalujo et al. 1899. The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, 1899.
www.drbo.org/
Fig. 1. Gloria, Laus et Honor tibi sit
Rex Christe Redemptor
2
. Photo: D.
Paré
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triumphal entrance into the Holy City. In each, Hosanna (Luke
settles for a close equivalent) is cited as an expression of joy.
The names of the authors of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John, can be detected in the four exclamations
“Mattahah! Marahah! Luahah! Joahanahanahana!" (See
Appendix I for more complete text).
Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and sellers out of the
temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the priests and scribes.
Matthew 21:1-10
Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. 10 And when he was
come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is
this? (Fig. 2)
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Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig
tree and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.
and others cut down boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the
way. 9 And they that went before and they that followed, cried,
saying: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh:
Hosanna in the highest. Mark 11:1-10
...the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God
with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, 38 Saying:
Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord, peace in
heaven, and glory on high! Luke 19:29-44
The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an
ass. A voice from heaven.
12 And on the next day, a great multitude that was to come to the
festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and
cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the
king of Israel. 14 And Jesus found a young ass, and sat upon it, as it
6
Levebvre, G. 1958. Mon Premier Missel Quotidien. L'abbaye de Saint-André. Éditions
Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges, 693p.
Fig. 2. Christ enters Jerusalem, Élisabeth Ivanovsky. Photo: D.G. Paré.
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Fig. 3. Christ enters Jerusalem. St. Paul’s Greek
Orthodox Ikon, Irvine, California.
is written: 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy king cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt. John 12:1-20
Zacharia of the old testament relates the events
with a twist on bow and fronde.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O
daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will
come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding
upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 10 And I
will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse
out of Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken:
and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power
shall be from sea to sea, and from the rivers even to the
end of the earth. Zachariah 9:9-10,
(
Fig. 3).
Flowers decorate the corners of the church,
contributing to atmosphere. They tone down the
austere, stone architecture of many churchs.
Flowers help occupy the minds of young
parishioners drifting on the soft Latin sung on the
edge of their... right; flowers can also help us
confirm what we think we see in the porte-
manteau words of Finnegans Wake. I think here of
the flowers thrown at the Savior as He entered the
city on His ass.
Occurrúnt turbæ cum flóribus et palmis Redemptóri óbviam: et victóri
triumphánti digna dant obséquia: Filium Dei ore gentes prædicant:
et in laudem Christi voces tonant per nubila: Hosánna in excélsis.
Dominica in Palmis, Roman Missal 1920.
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The multitude goeth forth to meet our Redeemer with flowers and
palms, and payeth the homage due to a triumphant Conqueror: the
Gentiles proclaim the Son of God; and their voices thunder through the
skies in praise of Christ: Hosanna in the highest!
Flowers can also be seen in the four exclamations (a greater
challange might be finding a word in Finnegans Wake in which
flowers cannot be seen):
“Mattahah!” Matta Hari (or Mahatma Gandhi) was Margaretha
Zelle's stage name (marguerite=daisy). Ken Parejko suggests
"Mata Hari!" may be an indirect reference to the Sanskrit "eye
of the day”, that is, Mother Vishnu, which also supports the
interpretation of the next exclamation. Vishnu, mother of God
Shiva, was incarnated 10 times to save the world from
destruction, the first incarnation, Matsya or The Fish, imparted
its knowledge to Manu so that it could slay a demon to return
to Brahma the Veda.
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Roman Missale, 1920.
www.nocturnale.de/pdf/Missale/Missale.pdf
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Fig.4 . Sacred Heart of Mary
Yet another possibility is:
who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who was of Mathatha,
who was of Nathan, who was of David... Jesus.
Luke 3:31
“Marahah!” or Mara, better known as Kamadeva or Pushpavān,
Hindu Lord of Desire, love, passion and more, wields a bow
made of sugarcane with flowered string and flower decorated
arrows . He also throws flower darts. As an aside, and because
carriages are so important on pages 553 and 554, it is worth
mentioning the vagón del Marahah (The Maharajah’s Carriage),
built in 1891 for Queen Victoria’s tour of India. The trip did
not take place and the car was later presented to King Alfonso
XIII, Her grandaughter’s husband, for a Royal trip to the
Riotinto Mine, Spain. It is considered the most luxurious
railway coach in the world. This may also be echoed in
“rickyshaws with Hispain's King's trompateers” (552.36) (or
His pain, the Passion of Christ).
“Luahah!” or Luau feast with Pacific Island garlands of tropical
flowers. It is interesting how the Hawaiian island of Hana fits
comfortably here; “Joahanahanahana!” Hana (KA)
花 ,
Japanese for flower is brushed as a simple, elegant, grade
1 grammar school cangi made up of important radicals.
Hana, is one of the first Chinese characters one learns. The
cord of Japanese language and characters through the Wake is
thick and here, I believe Joyce means hana as flower.
In addition to Joahanahanahana, there are other occurrences in
Finnegans Wake where it would seem that “hana and flower are
associated. For example, “roshashanaral” (340.27), which
combines the Jewish holiday, Rosh HaShanah, with Rose of
Sharon at the head of the word, and hana and Nara, Japan at the
tail (and maybe also Rozinante de la Mancha) in: “and the
roshashanaral, where he sees Bishop Ribboncake plus his pollex
prized” (340.27). At this point some may also suggest hashish
as in the second syl
Boswell! There are some pretty girls here:
Church of the Immaculate Conception. Look up, look way
up, gold on bone-white letters of the cupola edge, widow's
walk; is there a ladder or something to get up there?
Ivre
Adam: so pure before the fruit.
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Virgin Mary perched in an
alcove: carved,
Romani ite domvm
,
braided palm at her feet, lily
in her hand (Fig. 4); Sr. Mary McGurk wants the dative case
exercise
for
tomorrow;
impure
thoughts?
Unimaginable! Playwright McNalley fatwa’d by a U.K. Shari'ah
court - played mother of Prophet Isa as a prostitute! Oh my...,
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Jerome, St. 382. Biblia Sacra Vulgata. Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome to
translate the Vulgate Bible into Latin from the original Greek and Hebrew.
Fig.5 . White Woman, James
Whistler, 1862. Model: Joanna
Hiffernan (Jo).
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Fig. 9. Le sommeil (The Sleepers),
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet, 1866.
Paris: Musée d'Orsay. Joanna
Hiffernan, model.
relief to see the back of the church,
back to alter from communion, host
stuck to my palate, tastes like blood...
keep that to myself... O! her to my right,
back a pew from mine. Genuflect. Kneel.
Missel, Novalis, below my elbows. Sit.
Shocking ox blood red hair with the bare
minimum of lace and flowers perched and
pinned, a veil for the lord they want?:
jo,
jo,
just two,
une belle Irelandaise
, verry
red lips, symphony of holy white (Fig. 5). Sad Mary MacDoe.
Mass. Stand. Not allowed to look back, snake a look, Lange
Lijzen, again, clinkclinkclink and thurible chains, I smelled the
goose!, kitty-corner back across the aisle, end of pew, nicely
carved. Broken stem lily held limp on hip, so much white, so
many shades, holly red lips. Joanna, hana, hana, hana! Fall, one
Sunday, she had a flowing dress, long black with orange
blossoming flowers, little red butterflys, red-rose hair jumping
out of a collection of desires. Stole pembina red from Lent
mauve in the week. Sainte-Marie’s:
puer
re-up. Soothing rhythm
of the sleepers. Down river All.
l’Origin
du Monde.
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With your
face all white from the winter. Summon up other thoughts
now! Summon down help for me Matt. Duets on crazy plaid
lable.
A much weaker case for an additional reference to "hana " as
flower occurs at:
“First klettered Shanator
Gregory, seeking spoor through the deep timefield, Shanator
Lyons, trailing the wavy line of his partition footsteps”
(475.23-25)
This very beautiful phrase appears to combine the power of
Rome, SPQR, buried in the earth’s stratigraphic column
revealed by spores tacked to the palynological record. The
flowers on Quinet’s Grande Pile again.
Jesus’ mount is another point of interest. Peter Crisp pointed
out recently that the animals listed, after the more inspiring
“claudesdales withe arabinstreeds, madridden mustangs,
buckarestive bronchos” (553.35), are much tamer, diminutive,
mottled, and somewhat down-trodden but none-the-less hardy
troopers. And besides, my God, what greater honour for the
lowly donkey! I'm reminded of Don Quixote’s Rozinante:
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Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave 1866.
L'Origine du monde.
Musée d'Orsay,
Paris. Joanna Hiffernan, model. An image of the painting appears near bottom of the Wikipedia
web page.
Note that the public exhibition of this painting was banned in 1867.
Fig. 7. September, Sendagi
Chrysanthemums. Tsukioka
Yoshitoshi, 1880. Boasting of
Tokyo’s Twelve Seasons. (Scan: D.
Paré)
Fig. 8. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888.
Thirsty: the appearance of a town geisha,
a bargirl, in the Ansei era. Thirty-two
Aspects of Customs and Manners. (Scan:
D. Paré)
Fig. 6. Caprice in Purple and Gold (The Golden Screen), James Whistler, 1864. Joanna Hiffernan, model.
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“In the next place he visited his steed, and although this animal had
more blemishes than the horse of Gonela, which ‘tantum pellis et ossa fuit,’
yet, in his eyes, neither the Bucephalus of Alexander nor the Cid’s
Babieca could be compared with him.”
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This fits with Jesus' mount(s), I think Matthew was a bit spastic,
sometime referred to as a colt, mule, mule’s colt, ass, or foal of
a donkey. Furthermore, the pictures of Christ often show him
riding side-saddle as is alluded to in “softsidesaddled” (554.04).
Onward. The common wisdom is that Jesus chose an
“unpretentious” animal as a symbol of His humility. From
reading the New Testament however, this is not what comes
across. It seems to me He got stuck with what the disciples
scrounged. Anyway, mule, hinney, mottled, piebald, nag and so
on serve well my memory of the Lords humble mount. As for
the donkey motif in Finnegans Wake, well, I imagine that there
is donkey dream level to be interpreted on pp. 553-554; the
animals talking to Francis like McDonald talking to his liver and
so on. On the other hand, sometimes a donkey is just a donkey.
The exclamations also bring up martyrdom, death, and
suffering for our sins. Matta Hari executed as a spy. Mahatma
Ghandi certainly suffered for someone’s sins. Ven.
Matt Talbot fighting the bottle with barbed wire round his legs
at Adam and Eve's Church, Dublin. Jesus crucified in the prime
of his life.
Conclusion
Before this brings on the boredom of an excruciating Long
Mass (even though that is one of the goals of this essay), I’ll
finish with a reminder of the fascination children in northern
parishes feel when they see, at church, a little cord of fresh,
green fronds of the Phoenix dactylifera
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, the date palm,
overflowing a table. The leaves of most of the branches are
stuck together at the edges. Old, unread book with uncut pages-
beaded Tears from the aspergillum on the so green of the
blades. It all seems so out of place when the lion of March is
still strong in April - snow on the ground - more is still possible.
Someday I’ll have to research the provenance of these beautiful
branches
spreading
out, reaching the
farthest
parish:
Natashquan, Bastrop, Tromsø, Stony Rapids, and myriad bled I
don’t know the names of.
Dominique
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De Cervantes Saavedra, M. 1605.
Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Porter
and Coates, Philadelphia, 768p.
11
Sturtevant, E.D. 1919. Sturtevant’s Notes on Edible Plants. U.P. Hedrick (ed.),
N.Y. Department of Agriculture, Albany, 2(2): 686 p.
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“That the host
may choke me if I beneighbour you without my charity! Sh!
Shem, you are. Sh! You are mad!
He points the deathbone and the quick are still. Insomnia,
somnia somniorum. Awmawm.
MERCIUS (of hisself): Domine vopiscus! My fault, his fault,
a kingship through a fault! Pariah, cannibal Cain, I who oathily
forswore the womb that bore you and the paps I sometimes
sucked, you who ever since have been one black mass...”
(193.26-34)
The Last Gospel
P.
Dominus vobiscum.
S.
Et cum spiritu tuo.
P.
Initium sancti Evangelii secundum Joannem.
S.
Gloria tibi, Domine.
P.
The Lord be with you.
S.
And with your spirit.
P.
+ The beginning of the holy Gospel according to St. John.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank, Bryllars, Steve, and Suzanne for providing
music, images and ideas.
References, resources, and the odd comment
Overture and beginners!
"When lo (whish, O whish!) mesaw mestreamed, as the green to
the gred was flew, was flown, through deafths of durkness greengrown
deeper I heard a voice, the voce of Shaun, vote of the Irish, voise from
afar (and cert no purer puer
palestrine
e'er
chanted
panangelical mid the
clouds of
Tu es Petrus
, not Michaeleen Kelly, not Mara O'Mario, and
sure, what more numerose Italicuss ever rawsucked frish uov in urinal?),
a brieze to Yverzone o'er the brozaozaozing sea, from Inchigeela call the
way how it suspired (morepork! morepork!) to scented nightlife as softly
as the loftly marconimasts from Clifden sough open tireless secrets
(mauveport! mauveport!) to Nova Scotia's listing sisterwands. Tubetube!"
(407.10-21)
St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral and its Palestrina choir, Dublin.
http://www.procathedral.ie/
The Vatican's presence on the World Wide Web
http://www.vatican.va/
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Amministrazione Del Patrimonio Della Sede Apostolica.
www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm
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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da 158?. Tu es Petrus. Saint Peter’s Choir,
Notthingham.
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Tridentine Mass
Missa Cantata, Last Sunday after Pentecost, Eglise St. Nicholas de
Chardonnet, Paris. 2006, Colour, 1:13 min.
http://youtu.be/c32brXXx5k8
Tridentine Mass, Gregorian chant
Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Chicago, Easter Sunday, 1941. Black and
white, 54min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AOvStZS64
Catholic church supply houses
Images of liturgical instruments, linen, and supplies. Myrrh, Frankincense,
and other church incense can be ordered:
www.catholicsupply.com/churchs/incense.html
www.fadumont.co.uk/
www.desmarais-robitaille.com/
Church of the Immaculate Conception
"Eve and Adam’s" (3), Dublin
http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/quays/me
rchants/adam_and_eves.html
www.dublinchurches.com/churches/160.htm
Appendix I
Matthew 21:1-10
Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and sellers out of the
temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the priests and scribes.
1 And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage,
unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 Saying to them: Go
ye into the village that is over against you, and immediately you shall find
an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them and bring them to me. 3 And
if any man shall say anything to you, say ye, that the Lord hath need of
them: and forthwith he will let them go. 4 Now all this was done that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 5 Tell ye the
daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting
upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke.
6 And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. 7 And they
brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and
made him sit thereon. 8 And a very great multitude spread their garments
in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in
the way: 9 And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried,
saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. 10 And when he was come
into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this?
Mark 11:1-10
Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig tree and drives the
buyers and sellers out of the temple.
1 And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethania at the
mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, 2 And saith to them:
Go into the village that is over against you, and immediately at your
coming in thither, you shall find a colt tied, upon which no man yet hath
sat: loose him, and bring him. 3 And if any man shall say to you, What
are you doing? say ye that the Lord hath need of him: and immediately
he will let him come hither. 4 And going their way, they found the colt
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tied before the gate without, in the meeting of two ways: and they loose
him. 5 And some of them that stood there, said to them: What do you
loosing the colt?
6 Who said to them as Jesus had commanded them; and they let him go
with them. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus; and they lay their
garments on him, and he sat upon him. 8 And many spread their
garments in the way: and others cut down boughs from the trees, and
strewed them in the way. 9 And they that went before and they that
followed, cried, saying: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord. 10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh:
Hosanna in the highest.
Luke 19:29-44
29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and
Bethania, unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, 30
Saying: Go into the town which is over against you, at your entering into
which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no man ever hath
sitten: loose him, and bring him hither.
31 And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? you shall say
thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service. 32 And they
that were sent, went their way, and found the colt standing, as he had
said unto them. 33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof
said to them: Why loose you the colt? 34 But they said: Because the Lord
hath need of him. 35 And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their
garments on the colt, they set Jesus thereon.
36 And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way. 37
And when he was now coming near the descent of mount Olivet, the
whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud
voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, 38 Saying: Blessed be the
king who cometh in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven, and glory on
high! 39 And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to
him: Master, rebuke thy disciples. 40 To whom he said: I say to you, that
if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
41 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: 42 If
thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy
peace; but now they are hidden from thy eyes. 43 For the days shall
come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and
compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side, 44 And beat thee
flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee: and they shall not
leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time
of thy visitation.
John 12:1-20
The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass. A voice from
heaven.
1 Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where
Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. 2 And they made him
a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that
were at table with him. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of
right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the
ointment. 4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about
to betray him, said: 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor?
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6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he
was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put
therein. 7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against
the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you have always with you; but me
you have not always. 9 A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that
he was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might
see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests
thought to kill Lazarus also:
8 "Me you have not always"... Viz., in a visible manner, as when
conversant here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily
assist and relieve.
11 Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed
in Jesus. 12 And on the next day, a great multitude that was to come to
the festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to
Jerusalem, 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him,
and cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,
the king of Israel. 14 And Jesus found a young ass, and sat upon it, as it
is written: 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy king cometh, sitting
on an ass's colt.
16 These things his disciples did not know at the first; but when Jesus
was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of
him, and that they had done these things to him. 17 The multitude
therefore gave testimony, which was with him, when he called Lazarus
out of the grave, and raised him from the dead. 18 For which reason also
the people came to meet him, because they heard that he had done this
miracle. 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Do you see
that we prevail nothing? behold, the whole world is gone after him. 20
Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to adore on
the festival day.
12
Two pages of Lesson 4 of: Taylor, B.C. and Prentice, K.E. 1950. Living Latin. Clark, Irwin, & Company Limited, Toronto, 487 p. Photo: D. Paré.
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