Gaude, gaude Maria

Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria Virgo,
Cunctas haereses sola interemisti
quae Gabrielis archangeli dictis credidisti.
Dum virgo Deum et hominem genuisti
et post partum virgo inviolata permansisti.
Gabrielem archangelum scimus divinitus te esse affatum.
Uterum tuum de spiritu sancto credimus impregnatum.
Inviolata integra et casta es Maria.
Quae es effecta fulgida coeli porta.
O Mater Christi carissima,
O benigna, O regina, O Maria.

Rejoice, rejoice Mary ever virgin,
You alone have done away with all rivalry of beliefs,
you who believed the sayings of the archangel Gabriel.
While a virgin, you have born God and man;
and after birth you remeained pure and inviolate.
We know that Gabriel the archangel spoke to you prophetically.
We believe that your womb was mad pregnanat by the Holy Spirit.
Inviolate, immaculate and chaste art thou, O Mary,
who has become the glowing gate of heaven.
O Mother of Christ, so kind and most dear,
O Thou tender Queen.

taken from the sequence, Gaude, Gaude Maria

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