Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

 

[ I have shared the following post in several different forms over the years. I share it again convinced that the linked videos have the power to touch hearts and stir souls. It was my intent to share this in Sunday. I changed my mind. I want to do so now so that you will have the weekend to savor and enjoy their magnificent beauty. ] Still trying to rediscover a sense of awe and amazement in the Eucharist?  Perhaps our beloved St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, has just what you need this Corpus Christi.     (Source: Wikimedia Commons )  There are arguably no more beautiful and moving hymns than the three he composed for this great feast day:  Pange Linga , Tant um Ergo and Adore te Devote . But they are in Latin, you say, and you don't understand that language. But your heart can, if you just let these hauntingly beautiful melodies penetrate it. Your mind can certainly "rap itself around" the English translations...