SANCTUS

Once again, sub-zero temperatures have prevented me from attending Mass in

My parish in winter

 the Church at the top hill from my little house at the bottom. I could not take the Blessed Sacrament so I had to settle for spiritual Communion: "As I cannot receive Thee, My Jesus, in Holy Communion, come spiritually into my heart and make it Thine own forever." I read Scriptures from my LITURGY OF THE HOURS, for this point in the Church calendar, prayed my rosary and listened to selected portions of Beethoven's Mass in C Major.[1] Below is Sanctus.

"Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus,
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Osanna in excelsis."

English tranlation:

Holy, holy, holy
Lord God of Hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.

[Click on image below orhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNA4CNIUNXA for Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op.86, Sanctus, UCLA Choir

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[1] In the photograph of me at the top of the HumanLifeMatters blog, you will notice a bust of Beethoven on my fireplace mantle. I keep it there to remind me of the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity. Beethoven suffered deafness and yet was one of the greatest composers who ever lived.