Friday, 23 December 2011

O Virgo Virginum


The additional Sarum antiphon for today is:
Latin:
O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud?
Quia nec primam similem visa es nec habere sequentem.
Filiae Jerusalem, quid me admiramini?
Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis.
English:
O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be?
For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after.
Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me?
The thing which ye behold is a divine mystery.
The first line appears to refer to Our Lady's response to the Archangel at the Annunciation in Luke 1:34, whilst the reference to the Daughters of Jerusalem links to the repeated references to them in the Song of Songs.
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1 comment:

  1. Fr. Rupert o.praem.23 December 2012 at 11:31

    This antiphon is also sung in the Premonstratensian usage / rite. Happy Christmas John, from all of us here.

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