Properly speaking, the Proanaphoral service includes all that portion of the Communion service which precedes the Sursum Corda, "Lift up your hearts.
It is in stimulating this latent energy, and lovingly decoying it up to its most congenial atmosphere, that we experience the tender force of “Sursum Corda” as a touching address to our innermost self.
There is a singular power in that pithy summons of the exordium to the preface of the Mass--“Sursum Corda.
Don't hurry," replied Sursum Corda, starting off in advance with all the agility of which his crutches were capable.
Sursum Corda," I said to the patriot, "give me your crutches.
From the windows a tremendous fire was poured forth, and, remembering a phrase of the beggar Sursum Corda, I can say that our souls were turned into bullets.
In every age and in every land it has been the aim of Gothic masons to make their buildings, and especially their religious buildings, the incarnation of this mandate--Sursum corda.
Their churches should, indeed, sing Sursum corda as loudly as the rest, but they should add to it no less loudly this other refrain--In loco spatioso.
So their thought, their prayer, their struggle, is ever, Sursum corda; and day by day they are bound less to earth and realise more of heaven.
Quod sursum volo videre=--I wish to see that which is above.
Quæ sursum volo videre=--I desire to see the things which are above.
Thus the "Sursum corda" is not the measure for all; but for those that have wings.
But she had only to fix her eyes steadily on the faithful beacon of the Light-house out at sea, and bend her ear to the Life-bell chiming its Sursum Corda far above the moaning of the waves and winds, and her foolish fears gave way.
Mermillod, "who in the midst of our material cares hear the Sursum Corda of the Holy Church, and who delight in these noble and holy aspirations.
The visits of death are always solemn, but the end of the just is the most moving sursum corda that we can hear on earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sursum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
