I Was Pierced In the Right Side: "Vidi Aquam" - The LORD Jesus Christ, YHWH
- F M SHYANGUYA
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Updated: 5 hours ago
Organ Accompaniment to VIDI AQUAM by Jeff Ostrowski
The LORD Jesus Christ, YHWH, through Mother His Might, Our Lady of Guadalupe, reveals that He was pierced into His Right Side.
This is reflected in the Church's Antiphon "Vidi Aquam", which is used from Easter to Pentecost at the Asperges rite instead of the antiphon Asperges Me and the verse, Psalm 50,3.
The LORD Jesus Christ through Mother led me to this article:
The Antiphon
The antiphon for the season is:
Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a látere dextro, allelúja: et omnes ad quos pervénit aqua ista salvi facti sunt, et dicent: allelúja, allelúja.
Which I translate as:
I saw water coming out of the right side of the Temple, alleluia; and all they to whom that water of yours came were saved, and they shall say, alleluia, alleluia.
The antiphon pieces together three Scriptural threads.
The first is Our Lord’s identification of His Body with the Holy Temple of Jerusalem, an identification that was used against Him at His trial. (see John 2, 19-22; Matt. 26,61 and 27,40)
The second is the water and blood that flowed from the heart of Jesus on the Cross after it was pierced by the soldier’s lance. (John 19, 34)
The third is a vision in which a man shows the prophet Ezekiel [Ezek 47:1] waters coming out of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem:
Et convertit me ad portam domus, et ecce aquae egrediebantur subter limen domus ad orientem: facies enim domus respiciebat ad orientem, aquae autem descendebant in latus templi dextrum, ad meridiem altaris.
Which the Douay Rheims translates as:
And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar.
In light of the Risen Christ, the water that flows from the Temple’s right side is the saving baptismal water that flows out from Our Lord’s Sacred Heart and gives life to whomever it touches. And it is the Apostles, who have become “fishers of men,” who will give these healing waters to a multitude of fishes.
The relevance of this sentiment to the Paschal season is clear.
Who or What, Is The "Temple" Referenced?
To remove any doubt, through Mother, this teaching in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
CCC 1197 Christ is the true temple of God, "the place where his glory dwells"; by the grace of God, Christians also become the temples of the Holy Spirit, living stones out of which the Church is built.
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