There is a deeper meaning in the fact that the high priest sprinkles the blood toward the east. Atonement comes to you from the east. […] You are invited then to look always to the east: […] it is there that the light is always being born for you. ~ Origen (Office of Readings) #AdOrientem

#Rigveda 3.6.1
प्र कारवो मनना वच्यमाना देवद्रीचीं नयत देवयन्तः ।
दक्षिणावाड्वाजिनी प्राच्येति हविर्भरन्त्यग्नये घृताची ॥

#Ministrants, who are induced with #intension, lead the #Godward ladle, #charged #southward, bearing the #oblation, filled with liquefied #butter, offered to the #Fire #adorientem.

There is a deeper meaning in the fact that the high priest sprinkles the blood toward the east. Atonement comes to you from the east. […] You are invited then to look always to the east: […] it is there that the light is always being born for you. ~ Origen (Office of Readings) #AdOrientem

#PopeFrancis offered #theMass #AdOrientem on the #Solemnity of the #Annunciation inside of the #HolyHouse of #Loreto. He was the #second #Pope to do this after Blessed #PiusIX.

St. Edith Stein's last known words were sent to a Benedictine friend: "Greetings from Sister Teresia Benedicta of the Cross. En route ad orientem." The handwriting was unmistakably that of #EdithStein #AdOrientem
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There is a deeper meaning in the fact that the high priest sprinkles the blood toward the east. Atonement comes to you from the east. […] You are invited then to look always to the east: […] it is there that the light is always being born for you. ~ Origen (Office of Readings for today) #AdOrientem