Magnificat - Your Life is Everlasting

Vere dignum et justum est, It is truly right and just, invisibilem Deum Patrem omnipotentem to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father, Filiumque ejus unigenitum, and his Only Begotten Son, Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, our Lord Jesus Christ, toto cordis ac mentis affectu et vocis ministerio personare. with ardent love of mind and heart and with devoted service of our voice. Qui pro nobis aeterno Patri Adae debitum solvit, Who for our sake paid Adam’s debt to the eternal Father, et veteris piaculi cautionem pio cruore detersit. and, pouring out his own dear Blood, wiped clean the record of our ancient sinfulness. Haec sunt enim festa paschalia, These, then, are the feasts of Passover, in quibus verus ille Agnus occiditur, in which is slain the Lamb, the one true Lamb, cujus sanguine postes fidelium consecrantur. whose Blood anoints the doorposts of believers. Haec nox est, This is the night, in qua primum patres nostros, when once you led our forebears, filios Israel eductos de Aegypto, Israel’s children, from slavery in Egypt Mare Rubrum sicco vestigio transire fecisti. and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea. 118 THE HOUR FOR THE FIFTH DAY