I Made Biscuits Today

[qos]

As I pulled them out of the oven, thinking of the last meal I shared with Lohain, I felt a desire to look up the words of the Liturgy of the Host of the Grail Mass of the Ordo Arcanorum Gradalis.




Holy Mother,
we make manifest here
the Memorial Mystery
of Thy Beloved Son and Lover,
known from of old by innumerable names:
Adonis, Attis
Dionysus, Tammuz, Osiris, Orpheus,
Jesus and Pan.

We offer this Mystery
in memory of their dying:

Adonis, the Beautiful God,
slain in the blossom of his youth;
Attis, with his stains of scarlet
transformed to violets
beneath the sacred pine;
Jesus, the Suffering Servant,
suspended in agony
between heaven and earth.

But our grief has given way to joy,
for in death
the Gods are not deserted!
To them has been restored the renewal of life,
and we rejoice
in their resurrection!


Behold!
The Crucified God
has risen in strength
from the tomb triumphant;
harrowing hell and death’s domain;
ascending in the radiance
of solar glory!

Behold! Osiris has been raised up by Isis;
he who was torn in pieces
has been regathered as One;
restored by Her mighty words of power,
even as these scattered grains
have been gathered into one loaf,
that it may become for us
the Body of God
prepared as sacrifice
that He may rise anew transformed in us:
bone of our bone,
flesh of our flesh
spirit of our spirit.


With this Eucharist
we celebrate the sacred feast of
Shepherds, Sons and Saviors.

In their dying, we are broken.

In their rising we are healed by hope.

In their glorification
we are filled with light
as living luminaries
shining forth into the age to come.


Behold the Bread of Life,
the golden Lord of Harvest
the sprouted Seed of Ceres.

Blessed be the first-born God
of the living grain,
laid low by the scythe of sacrifice;
ground fine for flour
that we might live!

Behold the first fruits
of a greater harvest!
Behold Him whose love is unto death
that Life may rise anew!


[Grail Mass from The Crafted Cup, by Shadwynn]

Comments

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Me, I think you should also post it here.

please?

*puppy dog eyes*

[qos.livejournal.com]

Remind me after the fourth of July?

It's long, and would take considerable formatting work to enable it to appear here in any kind of readable manner. However, I'm happy to share it.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

if is too much work, forward in any fashion.
thisjournal at gmail dot com is good, or if the text is available online somewhere, a link to that would be perfectly fine as well.

far be it from me to add to the busy person's workload... especially just before I head out on vacation...

no worries. whatever is most convenient for you.