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Devotions to the Virgin Mary, continued.

Introduction to the litany, Missus est angelus, continued.



... on the fourth, as she was when she rejoiced at her son's resurrection; on the fifth, as she was when, joyfully, she was received in heaven, placed on the right hand of God and crowned and made queen of heaven, earth and hell, and of all things there.


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ta vice in illo magno gaudio quando habuit\ in filii resurrectione. Quinta vice in ea forma\ et in eodem gaudio in quo assumpta fuit in\ celum et a dextris dei collocata et regina ac\ imperatrix coronata, et effecta celi et terre et in\ferni ac omnium que in eis sunt.

Litany, Missus est angelus.



A litany addressed to the Virgin Mary. The author invokes five times the words of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin: 'Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee' (Luke, 1:28). He invokes the Virgin in 52 phrases, with the response: 'The Lord is with thee'.


Oracio.\

Missus est angelus Gabriel\ ad Mariam virginem despon\satam Ioseph nuncians ei\ verbum, Ave Maria gracia\ plena dominus tecum.

Missus est\ angelus Gabriel ad Mariam virginem desponsatam\ Ioseph. Ave Maria gracia plena dominus tecum.

Mis\sus est angelus Gabriel ad Mariam virginem\ desponsatam Ioseph. Ave Maria gracia plena dominus tecum.

Missus\ est angelus Gabriel ad Mariam virginem despon\satam virginem nuncians ei verbum, Ave\ Maria gracia plena dominus tecum.

Missus est angelus\ Gabriel ad Mariam virginem desponsatam\ Ioseph nuncians ei verbum, Ave Maria gracia\ plena dominus tecum.

Imperatrix reginarum. Dominus\



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