As I practice and continue to learn the Exultet for the Great Easter Vigil, I am moved to tears reflecting on these lines, especially the part about the Eternal Father ransoming a slave by giving away His Son:
I am that slave!
As the verse says: Love beyond all telling. The thought of the Father sending His Son for love moves me deeply. How can words describe something like that?
"O love, O charity beyond all telling, /
to ransom a slave you gave away your Son! /
O truly necessary sin of Adam, /
destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! /
O happy fault that earned so great, /
so glorious a Redeemer!"
I am that slave!
As the verse says: Love beyond all telling. The thought of the Father sending His Son for love moves me deeply. How can words describe something like that?
(The lines appear at 05:45.)
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