Veneremur cernui
From the Mulier Fortis blog, using her snazzy new camera - the reverence at the words "veneremur cernui" during the Tantum ergo at Benediction yesterday.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
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3 comments:
Father - what is the literal translation of "veneremur cernui"?
Every time I look at a translation on a facing page, I don't get how they could come up with what they did. However, I do understand something may have gotten switched around to make it sound better.
I too have photographed this act of reverence at my own parish. I noticed it early on, as I did with other acts of piety.
Altar boys need to know that they are teachers of liturgical reverence and Eucharistic piety by their example (following the priest, of course).
Diane - From Lewis & Short,
cernuus = with the face turned towards the earth, inclined forwards, stooping or bowing forwards.
veneror = to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate
veneror is used here in its poetic, deponent form (i.e. a passive form with an active meaning). veneremur - present subjunctive 1st person plural
So: veneremur cernui = bowing down, let us adore (i.e. such a great sacrament - tantum sacramentum)
One of the traditional English metrical translations has "therefore we, before him bending, this great sacrament revere" which is OK.
Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui: Therefore, heads foremost we venerate so great a Sacrament.
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