The Authors of the original music (Paul Inwood) and text (Eugenio Costa, S.J.) have donated the copyright of this work to the PCPNE in order to facilitate the distribution of the Hymn of the Jubilee of Mercy throughout the Catholic Church.
The Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.' So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
'This at last is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.'
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.
Qui sanctificat et qui sanctificantur, ex uno omnes.
Lecture de la lettre aux Hébreux 2, 9-11
Jésus avait été abaissé un peu au-dessous des anges, et maintenant nous le voyons couronné de gloire et d'honneur à cause de sa passion et de sa mort. Si donc il a fait l'expérience de la mort, c'est, par grâce de Dieu, pour le salut de tous.
En effect, puisque le créateur et maître de tout voulait avoir une multitude de fils e des filles à conduire jusqu'à la gloire, il était normal qu'il mène à sa perfection, par la souffrance, celui qui est à l'origine du salut de tous.
Car Jésus, qui sanctifie, et les hommes qui sont sanctifiés, sont de la mème race; et, pour cette raison, il nà pas honte de les appeler ses frères.
Accedentes Pharisæi interrogabant Iesum, si licet viro uxorem dimittere, tentantes eum.
At ille respondens dixit eis: «Quid vobis præcepit Moyses?».
Qui dixerunt: «Moyses permisit libellum repudii scribere et dimittere».
Iesus autem ait eis: «Ad duritiam cordis vestri scripsit vobis præceptum istud. Ab initio autem creaturæ masculum et feminam fecit eos. Propter hoc relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem et adhærebit ad uxorem suam, et erunt duo in carne una; itaque iam non sunt duo sed una caro. Quod ergo Deus coniunxit, homo non separet».
Et domo iterum discipuli de hoc interrogabant eum. Et dicit illis: «Quicumque dimiserit uxorem suam et aliam duxerit, adulterium committit in eam; et si ipsa dimiserit virum suum et alii nupserit, mœchatur».
Et offerebant illi parvulos, ut tangeret illos; discipuli autem comminabantur eis. At videns Iesus, indigne tulit et ait illis: «Sinite parvulos venire ad me. Ne prohibueritis eos; talium est enim regnum Dei. Amen dico vobis: Quisquis non receperit regnum Dei velut parvulus, non intrabit in illud».
Et complexans eos benedicebat imponens manus super illos.
