Dewfall: Even the Angels Pause to Adore!

Dewfall: Even the Angels Pause to Adore!

The Old Testament of the bible introduces us to the dewfall of God’s saving, redeeming, nurturing grace.

God’s word encourages us to dwell in contemplation, within the very centre of our hearts. To allow the dewfall of the evening to soak us through in awe and thanksgiving, to enable us to constantly ponder the gift of God’s own favour, that calmly visits each day without fail. The dewfall, that sweet life sustaining Manna from the desert, discovered in that wasteland of despair and disaster. The Dewfall restoring hope, renewing our sense that we are loved and Loved from eternity!

God’s love is Dewfall, a realisation that accompanies frail flesh and bone, so we do not fear the evening of life but in stillness feel the very droplets of love filling us to life’s fulness. The Mass is that continuing promise where the dewfall of God’s love, Jesus in his body and blood, once and forever sacrificed upon the altar of the cross, confirms our status as forever loved.

The following is a poem to express the meaning of the phrase at Mass “like the dewfall.”

Dewfall: Even the Angels Pause to Adore!

Haec ergo dona, quaesumus, Spiritus tui rore sanctifica,

 “Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray,

by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall.”

Wait, as the Holy Spirit enters trembling hearts,

descending as “like the dewfall”

most gentle, yet insistent,

covering creation with an abundant saturation of grace, even the angels pause to adore

God said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven” (Ex 14:4)

“Like the dewfall” quiet, unseen, mysterious and gentle, even the angels pause to adore.

Jesus wondrously entered this world,

true God, true man through Mary,

who had conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit —

a silent, unseen, mysterious, gentle incarnation.

Jesus Himself the fulfillment of “the dewfall” even the angels paused to adore.

During holy Mass, each priest prays

for the Holy Spirit to descend like “the dewfall”

to transubstantiate bread and wine

into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

All of this is done in a very quiet, unseen, mysterious and gentle way,

yet in a way that is so miraculous that even the angels pause to adore.

As we prepare to celebrate the Mass,

may the Holy Spirit descend upon each of us “like the dewfall”

so that soaked in God’s redeeming grace

we may believe ever more fervently in the great gift of the Blessed Sacrament.

 So that…with the angels may we learn how to pause to adore.

Fr Patrick Brennan ©

Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2024/12/dewfall-even-angels-pause-to-adore.html