Pentecost - Veni Creator Spiritus

Today at 9:30am, newly ordained by Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron for the Archdiocese of Detroit with 5 other men (1 for Cameroon), Fr. Charles White IV will celebrate his First Mass - a Solemn High Mass using the 1962 Missal. Grotto's pastor, Rev. Eduard Perrone will conduct the orchestra and choir, featuring Mozart's Missa in C Major - the Credo Mass. Please join us. Father Charles will provide "first blessings" following the Mass in the school gym. The Solemn High Mass on Pentecost at Assumption Grotto typically runs about 1:45.

LYRICS (Latin)

Veni, Creator Spiritus,
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia
quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,
altissimi donum Dei,
fons vivus, ignis, caritas,
et spiritalis unctio.

Tu, septiformis munere,
Dextrae Dei tu digitus,
Tu rite promissum Patris,
sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus:
infunde amorem cordibus:
infirma nostri corporis
virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius,
pacemque dones protinus:
ductore sic te praevio
vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem,
noscamus atque Filium;
Teque utriusque Spiritum
credamus omni tempore.

(Deo Patri sit gloria,
et Filio, qui a mortuis
surrexit, ac Paraclito,
in saeculorum saecula.
Amen.)

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