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#392: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
Mar. 13th, 2021 10:29 pmWe have a little Ascension mini-section to close out "Easter," commemorating Jesus' departure into heaven prior to Pentecost. This is a full-blown case of "final verse same as the first."
I like the image of "earth your footstool, heaven your throne," as if Jesus' body could literally stretch from heaven to earth, connecting the mundane with the divine. Verse 4 also contains some repetition with rhyming "great high priest" and "...priest and victim in the eucharistic feast." (Usually the Gospel imagery of the curtain of the temple being torn in two signifies "we no longer need a special leader to go inside the holy place and speak to God for us, Christ has already brought God close.")
I like the image of "earth your footstool, heaven your throne," as if Jesus' body could literally stretch from heaven to earth, connecting the mundane with the divine. Verse 4 also contains some repetition with rhyming "great high priest" and "...priest and victim in the eucharistic feast." (Usually the Gospel imagery of the curtain of the temple being torn in two signifies "we no longer need a special leader to go inside the holy place and speak to God for us, Christ has already brought God close.")
