{"id":13836,"date":"2012-04-04T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2012-04-10T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:43:16","slug":"paragraphs-reversed-in-exsultet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/paragraphs-reversed-in-exsultet\/","title":{"rendered":"Paragraphs reversed in Exsultet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longer and shorter forms of the Easter Praeconium have two paragraphs in reverse order towards the end of the text.<\/p>\n<p>In the longer form:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>On this, your night of grace, O holy Father,<br \/>\naccept this candle, a solemn offering,<br \/>\nthe work of bees and of your servants\u2019 hands,<br \/>\nan evening sacrifice of praise,<br \/>\nthis gift from your most holy Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But now we know the praises of this pillar,<br \/>\nwhich glowing fire ignites for God\u2019s honor,<br \/>\na fire into many flames divided,<br \/>\nyet never dimmed by sharing of its light,<br \/>\nfor it is fed by melting wax,<br \/>\ndrawn out by mother bees<br \/>\nto build a torch so precious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>O truly blessed night,<br \/>\nwhen things of heaven are wed to those of earth,<br \/>\nand divine to the human.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the shorter form:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>O truly blessed night,<br \/>\nwhen things of heaven are wed to those of earth<br \/>\nand divine to the human.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this, your night of grace, O holy Father,<br \/>\naccept this candle, a solemn offering,<br \/>\nthe work of bees and of your servants\u2019 hands,<br \/>\nan evening sacrifice of praise,<br \/>\nthis gift from your most holy Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any deep theological significance to this, or just a simple error?<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.ssg.org.uk\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=1411&amp;start=45#p20421\">http:\/\/www.ssg.org.uk\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=1411&amp;start=45#p20421<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any deep theological significance to this, or just a simple error?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[1168,477,1504],"class_list":["post-13836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-new-missal","tag-exultet","tag-translation-issues","tag-triduum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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