22 December 2010

Yet another beautiful

antiphon for Lauds on Christmas morn, framing Psalm 100, in the Magdeburg Cathedral Book:

Genuit puerpera regem, 
cui nomen aeternum
et gaudiu- matris habens 
cum virginitatis pudore,
nec prima- similem visa est, 
nec habere sequentem, Alleluia.

A young Maid has brought forth the King Whose name is Eternal:
to the honour of virginity she unites the joys of motherhood;
before her, the like was never seen, nor shall it ever be so again, Alleluia.

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