Sunday, May 10, 2020

Happy Mothers Day!




I feel this is appropriate, via Domini res gestas:

Te, Mater alma Numinis,
Oramus omnes supplices,
A fraude nos ut dæmonis
Tua sub umbra protegas.
Ob perditum nostrum genus
Primi parentis crimine,
Ad inclitum Matris decus
Te Rex supremus extulit.
Clementer ergo prospice
Lapsis Adami posteris:
A te rogatus Filius
Deponat iram vindicem.

Meaning: 

Loving Mother of God, we all humbly pray to you, that you protect us and shade us from the fraud of the demons. For the sake of our race lost in the sin of our first parent, the King supreme raised you up to the great glory of being his mother. Therefore, show your mercy to the fallen posterity of Adam, and at your intercession may your Son put aside his avenging anger.

Latin, I've always thought, is a martial language. Whatever, the hymn concludes:

Iesu, tibi sit gloria,
Qui natus es de Vírgine,
Cum Patre et almo Spiritu,
In sempiterna sæcula. Amen.

Yes indeed, and happy Mothers Day! God bless you and may the Virgin's powerful intercession be with you.

A fraude nos ut dæmonis tua sub umbra protegas,

LSP

5 comments:

  1. I don't think that being Jesus' mother was an easy job, LSP.

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    1. Has to have been hard, LL."A sword shall pierce your own sould also"...

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  2. Shade us from the fraud of the demons! I like that.

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