After enjoying the Liturgy of the Light celebration together I invited the L3 children to share a line of our prayer which stood out to each of them. The following lines were mentioned, after which I've included their comments / conversation:
Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her,
ablaze with light from her eternal King,
let all corners of the earth be glad,
knowing an end to gloom and darkness.
It is truly right and just, with ardent love of mind and heart
and with devoted service of our voice,
to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father,
and Jesus Christ, our Lord, his Son, his Only Begotten.
Who for our sake paid Adam's debt to the eternal Father,
and, pouring out his own dear Blood,
wiped clean the record of our ancient sinfulness.
This is the night
that with a pillar of fire
banished the darkness of sin.
This is the night,
when Christ broke the prison-bars of death
and rose victorious from the underworld.
O wonder of your humble care for us!
O love, O charity beyond all telling,
to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!
O truly necessary sin of Adam,
destroyed completely by the Death of Christ!
O happy fault
that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!
The sanctifying power of this night
dispels wickedness, washes faults away,
restores innocence to the fallen, and joy to mourners,
drives out hatred, fosters concord, and brings down the mighty.
Therefore, O Lord,
we pray you that this candle,
hallowed to the honor of your name,
may persevere undimmed,
to overcome the darkness of this night.
Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her,
ablaze with light from her eternal King,
let all corners of the earth be glad,
knowing an end to gloom and darkness.
- Rejoice!!
- We are rejoicing and the church has a lot of light.
- Everyone is rejoicing. And all of creation! This is like all the nations are rejoicing so millions and millions of peoples.
It is truly right and just, with ardent love of mind and heart
and with devoted service of our voice,
to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father,
and Jesus Christ, our Lord, his Son, his Only Begotten.
- It’s right and just with all our hearts to praise Him.
Who for our sake paid Adam's debt to the eternal Father,
and, pouring out his own dear Blood,
wiped clean the record of our ancient sinfulness.
- Since Adam sinned, the Father paid Jesus to make up for it.
- It tells us we should learn to love others, to act like He did.
This is the night
that with a pillar of fire
banished the darkness of sin.
- It’s saying when Jesus rose the light banished our bad thoughts on the inside.
This is the night,
when Christ broke the prison-bars of death
and rose victorious from the underworld.
- It’s like we are in a jail of sin and when He dies He destroys sin.
O wonder of your humble care for us!
O love, O charity beyond all telling,
to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!
- You should hold your son higher than your slave. But God loved us.
O truly necessary sin of Adam,
destroyed completely by the Death of Christ!
O happy fault
that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!
- The sin of Adam is destroyed so we can go to heaven.
- Maybe Adam's sin is necessary because the devil wouldn’t have been destroyed and we wouldn’t have heaven if Adam had never sinned.
- If Adam hadn’t sinned, someone else would have.
- Maybe it was necessary for Adam to sin for Jesus to come.
- If Adam hadn't sinned Jesus wouldn’t have come to teach and people wouldn’t have understood so much.
- Adam's sin earned such a great redeemer.
- If Adam hadn’t sinned, Jesus wouldn’t have opened the gates of heaven.
- In the beginning of creation, in the Garden of Eden, Satan was there so it couldn’t have been heaven so it’s better that Adam sinned so Jesus could come and defeat the devil.
The sanctifying power of this night
dispels wickedness, washes faults away,
restores innocence to the fallen, and joy to mourners,
drives out hatred, fosters concord, and brings down the mighty.
- I really like the image of Him taking away all the wickedness and washing faults away like in confession. He gives joy to those who are sad.
Therefore, O Lord,
we pray you that this candle,
hallowed to the honor of your name,
may persevere undimmed,
to overcome the darkness of this night.
- Jesus is so powerful and full of light that it can overcome darkness.
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