"FESTIVIS RESONENT CARMINIBUS." - This is the hymn of Vespers for the feast of the Most Precious Blood, probably composed by Msgr. L. Tripopi, when in 1846 this feast was instituted, owing to the initiative of Bl. Gaspare Del Bufalo, who had already founded two religious Congregations under the same title.

The ode extols the divine Blood of Jesus shed as the price of human redemption. The new Adam, Jesus, set against the old progenitor, is a just demonstration of the latter's destructive work in contrast to Christ's healing work. Only his blood had the power to appease the Father and to open to humanity the gates of heaven. The doxology departs from the usual closings of hymns, and is a living prayer that the Lord may recreate us in the glory of paradise.

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BIBL.: G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Rome 1856, p. 456 ff.; V. Terreno, Gli inni dell'Ufficio divino, Mondovì 1932, p. 222 ff.; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Naples 1947, p. 143 ff.

Silverio Mattei

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