Maria-Placida – Abbey of St. Walburga https://walburga.org Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:54:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://walburga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Front-Entrance-St.-Walburga-Statue-Square-512-32x32.jpg Maria-Placida – Abbey of St. Walburga https://walburga.org 32 32 192481327 Another Suscipe https://walburga.org/2022/07/15/another-suscipe/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:17:53 +0000 https://walburga.org/?p=2480 On July 11, the Solemnity of Saint Benedict, our Sister Maria-Placida renewed her vows for another year. Join us in praying for her as she journeys toward Solemn Profession!

During the vow renewal ceremony, the “Suscpie” is sung by the sister before the altar. The full text of the chant is “Suscipe me, Domine, secundum eloquium tuum, et vivam et non confundas me ab expectatione mea,” which translates, “Uphold me O Lord, as you have promised, that I may live; and disappoint me not in my hope.” Below is a beautiful word about the “Suscpie” from Esther de Waal, a contemporary author on Benedictine spirituality:

The sun shining into the Chapel as Sister Maria-Placida sings her “Suscipe”

We stand daily before God with empty hands, just like the publican. “Suscpie me, accept me O Lord as you have promised and I shall live; do not disappoint me in my hope.” [These words] mean more now that I have learnt that the Latin word comes from the verb sub-capere, to take underneath and so with the idea of supporting, raising, and that in Roman usage it was the word for a father taking up a new-born infant from the ground and thus recognizing it as his own…Accept me, receive me, support me, raise me up – wonderful singing words that say everything that I want to say as a prayer for myself.

Esther de Waal, Living With Contradiction
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