O vos imitatores excelsae personae
in preciosissima
et gloriosissima significatione,
o quam magnus est vester ornatus,
ubi homo procedit,
solvens et stringens in Deo
pigros et peregrinos:
Etiam ornans candidos et nigros
et magna onera
remittens.
Nam et angelici ordinis
officia habetis,
et fortissima fundamenta praescitis,
ubicumque constituenda sunt,
unde magnus est vester honor.
Etiam ornans candidos et nigros,
et magna onera remittens.
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© 2010 Norma Gentile. Available from Healing Chants. Reproduced with permission, all rights reserved.
O you imitators of the highest person
in the most precious
and glorious play,
o how great is your adornment,
where a man walks forth
freeing and binding in God
the slow and wandering:
Indeed adorning the bright and the dark,
and the great burdens
sending away.
For of the rank of angels
you have the services,
and you have foreknowledge of the strongest foundations,
wherever they must be built -
from this your grace is great.
Indeed adorning the bright and the dark,
and the great burdens
sending away.
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