Saint Cecilia, we know that you were a musician and we are told that you heard angels sing. Inspire musicians to gladden the hearts of people by filling the air with God's gift of music and reminding them of the Divine Musician Who created all beauty. Amen.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

This week you must win further help for your clue. The Mistress of the Quest will not give it to you Until you follow out the instructions she gives To help you find the answer to where your prize is.

Grant, O Lord, that the light of your love may never be dimmed within us. Let it shine forth from our warmed hearts to comfort others in times of peace and in seasons of adversity, and in bright beams of your goodness and love may we come at last to the vision of your glory; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. Have mercy on me, a sinner.

As a drop of water seems to disappear completely in a big quantity of wine, even assuming the wines taste and color;... so it is necessary for the saints that all human feelings melt in a mysterious way and flow into the will of God.

--Bernard of Clairvaux, “On Loving God”

Jerome, in On the Epistle to the Ephesians, says: “It is written about Christ, that he was always with the Father, and that the paternal will never, as it were, preceded him”; “and he was son by nature, we by adoption.”.... Hilary too, in Book III of On the Trinity, says: “... We are sons of God, but not like this Son. For he is true Son, in the strict sense, by origin, not by adoption.”.... These statements make it evident that Christ is not a Son by the grace of adoption.

Jerome, in On the Epistle to the Ephesians, says: “It is written about Christ, that he was always with the Father, and that the paternal will never, as it were, preceded him”; “and he was son by nature, we by adoption.”.... Hilary too, in Book III of On the Trinity, says: “... We are sons of God, but not like this Son. For he is true Son, in the strict sense, by origin, not by adoption.”.... These statements make it evident that Christ is not a Son by the grace of adoption. --Peter Lombard, Sentences

A most pressing problem obtrudes itself at this point, as to what that redemption of ours through the death of Christ may be.... And so it seems that we must first investigate why it was necessary for God to take human nature upon him so that he might redeem us by dying in the flesh; and from what person... he has redeemed us; and by what standard of justice he has liberated us.

Abelard, Exposition of the Epistle of the Romans

The blessed wound of our Saviour is open and rejoices to heal us; the sweet gracious hands of our Mother reach out ready and diligent.... His task is to save us, a duty he delights to fulfill. And he would have us know it; for he wants us to love him sweetly and trust in him meekly and mightily.

Julian of Norwich, Revelation of Love

Trinity beyond all essence, beyond all divinity, beyond all goodness!.... Let this be my prayer, leav[ing] behind the senses and the operations of the intellect, and all things in the world of being and nonbeing, that [I] might rise up unknowingly toward the union, as far as is attainable, with him who transcends all being and all knowledge.

Trinity beyond all essence, beyond all divinity, beyond all goodness!.... Let this be my prayer, leav[ing] behind the senses and the operations of the intellect, and all things in the world of being and nonbeing, that [I] might rise up unknowingly toward the union, as far as is attainable, with him who transcends all being and all knowledge. --Dionysius, The Mystical Theology