Robert W. Chambers
Today is the 86th anniversary of the death of Robert W. Chambers, a perhaps little remembered writer who nevertheless had an enormous impact on me.
It was only much later that I found out he was Catholic, and I read his works in an entirely different light.
In your charity, please pray for him.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
In memoria æterna erit iustus,
ab auditione mala non timebit.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord:
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
He shall be justified in everlasting memory,
and shall not fear evil reports.
Absolve, Domine,
animas omnium fidelium defunctorum
ab omni vinculo delictorum
et gratia tua illis succurente
mereantur evadere iudicium ultionis,
et lucis æternae beatitudine perfrui.
Forgive, O Lord,
the souls of all the faithful departed
from all the chains of their sins
and by the aid to them of your grace
may they merit to avoid avenging judgment,
and enjoy the blessedness of everlasting light.
Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in æternum,
quia pius es.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine;
et lux perpetua luceat eis ;
cum Sanctis tuis in æternum,
quia pius es.
May everlasting light shine upon him, O Lord,
with your Saints forever,
for you are kind.
Grant him eternal rest, O Lord,
and may everlasting light shine upon him.
with your Saints forever,
for you are merciful.
You seem to have turned off comments for your “Illation Conundrim” posting from a few years ago, and I can’t find any other contact information for you, so forgive this reply to an unrelated post!
I was also puzzled by the feast of the Illation of the Relics of St. Benedict, but I think I have discovered its meaning. From an 1874 edition of Sabine Baring-Gould’s Lives of the Saints:
“The body of S. Benedict was carried by S. Aigulf, monk of the abbey of Fleury, from Monte Cassino, which had been ruined by the Lombards, into France, to his own monastery. This translation took place on July 11th, and
is commemorated in all the monasteries of France on that day. Another solemnity, called the Illation, has been instituted in honour of the transfer of the same relics from Orleans, whither they had been conveyed, from fear of the Normans, back again to Fleury-sur-Loire. In 1838, the bishop of Orleans resolved on sending the relics to the Benedictine abbey of Solesmes, in the diocese of Le Mans, but the project met with so great opposition that he con
tented himself with sending only the skull to Solesmes.”
That’s extremely helpful, Father, thank you!
http://www.thomryng.com/amateurmonk/an-illation-conundrum/