Taking a closer look at the Holy Moly Doors of Our Lady of Sorrows Toronto; or, What Does the Door Really Say?

You might remember this story about the Holy Moly Doors at Our Lady of Sorrows parish in Toronto. Some wealthy friends of the parish put up over $400,000.00 for new bronze doors created by the studio of Ernesto Lamagna. 

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On the exterior of the doors is a relief of St. Michael the Archangel slaying Satan. On the inside is a rather hideous art of a decapitated and dismembered Christ.

There is an inscription on each door below the sculpture, it is the same on each. Can you read it?

Let's look at where it is from. 

It is a phrase from the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah, 1:12, and is used in the Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday, the whole scriptural phrase being.

"O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow."

One will also hear this in Handel's Messiah from the tenor aria:

"Behold, and see, if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow."

So, what is the issue? Well, let us look at the Latin of the most sublime motet composed by Tomas Luis do Victoria, O Vox Omnes from Matins of Good Friday which contains the whole phrase from whence the inscription comes.

"O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam: attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. Attendite, universi populi, et videte dolorem meum. Si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus."

Now, going back to the inscription on those Holy Moly Doors, we ask the question, "What does the door really say?

"VIDITE!"

Really?

For $400,000.00 you would think they would have spelt it correctly.

The word doesn't even exist.

At least the The Sixteen got it right.