I was going to liveblog 4/20, but I got too high and had to log off. Another day, my dearies. 

Today I am reading devotional and liturgical writings from a multitude of religions (from Zoroastrianism to Rodnovery) to get in the mood to work on the Prayer section of the Hymnōdai Hieros Logos; currently I am reading a Catholic missal from 1910. The archaic language is charming and inspiring by turns — and then there are the jarring moments.

For instance, there’s a section of brief, fervent declamations, the technical name of which are “ejaculations.”

Then there’s this line from Saint Gerard Majella’s Resolutions:

O my God, my only love, to-day and every day I give myself up to Thy good pleasure. In all temptations and trials I will say always: Thy will be done. All that Thou mayest ordain for me I will embrace with my whole heart, never ceasing to raise my eyes to heaven there to adore the divine hands which cast towards me the precious pearls of Thy most holy will. My supreme resolution is to give myself unreservedly to God. For this reason I will have continually before my eyes this motto: Be thou deaf, blind, and mute. Only one thing do I desire — Thy good pleasure, O my God, and not mine own. I will have all possible veneration for priests, beholding in them Jesus Christ Himself, and striving to be penetrated with the greatness of their dignity.

Oh, you Catholics.

But seriously, Saint Gerard Majella sounds like a godatheow, hieródoulos, or qadeš of Christ.