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Caritas abundat
05:02
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Loving kindness abounds everywhere, in everything,
from the lowest of the stars
to the highest and most beloved of all things
because the Goddess
has bequeathed
the kiss of peace
upon the ultimate King.
Unto ages of ages, Amen
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O frondens virga
04:36
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O leafy branch,
standing in your nobility
as the dawn breaks forth:
now rejoice and be glad
and deign to set us frail ones
free from evil habits
stretch forth your hand and lift us up.
Unto ages of ages, Amen
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Quia ergo femina
05:44
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For since a woman drew up death,
a virgin gleaming dashed it down,
and therefore is the highest blessing found
in woman’s form
before all other creatures.
For God was made a human
in the sweetest and most blessed Virgin.
Unto ages of ages, Amen.
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O virtus sapientiae
06:58
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O strength of Wisdom
who circling circled
enclosing all in one lifegiving path.
Three winds have you:
one soars to the heights
one distills its essence upon the earth,
and the third is everywhere.
Praise to you, as it is fitting,
O Wisdom.
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O quam mirabilis est
06:53
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How wonderful it is,
that the foreknowing heart divine
has first known everything created!
for when God looked upon the human face
that they had formed,
they gazed upon their every work,
reflected whole within that human form.
How wondrous is that breath
that roused humanity to life!
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O luminous
apostles’ band—
to recognize the truth you rise
and open wide
the schoolhouse prison of the devil’s mastery,
to wash
its captives clean within the font
of living water—
you are a brilliant light
within the darkest shadows,
the strongest kind of pillars
the Lamb’s Bride to uphold
in all the ornament
of him through whose rejoicing
that Mother Virgin bears
her banner.
For the spotless Lamb is
the Bridegroom of
that spotless Bride
of him through whose rejoicing
that Mother Virgin bears
her banner.
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O vos angeli
16:27
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O angels, you
who guard the peoples in your care
whose form reflects in flash upon your face;
O archangels, you
who lend your aid to righteous souls;
O virtues, powers, princedoms,
dominations, thrones—
you’re reckoned in the mystic fifth;
and O you cherubim and seraphim,
the seal upon God’s mysteries:
Praise be to you,
who glimpse the chamber of the ancient heart
within the fount, the source.
For you look into
the Father’s inner strength—
the breathing of his heart as of his face.
Praise be to you,
who glimpse the chamber of the ancient heart
within the fount, the source.
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Ann Moss California
I'm a vocalist, teaching artist, and champion of contemporary composition. My artistic mission is to lift up new and contemporary vocal literature to serve as narrative for the hard to speak about issues of our times. I perform and collaborate with a dynamic array of composers, chamber ensembles and orchestras. ... more
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