This is an arrangement of the setting by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).
SATB
c.10′
O clarissima
mater sancte medicine,
tu ungenta
per sanctum Filium tuum
infudisti
in plangentia vulnera mortis,
que Eva edificavit
in tormenta animarum.
Tu destruxisti mortem,
edificando vitam.
Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.
O vivificum instrumentum
et letum ornamentum
et dulcedo omnium deliciarum,
que in te non deficient.
Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.
Gloria Patri et Filio
et Spiritui sancto.
Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.
O radiant bright,
O mother of a holy medicine,
your ointments
through your holy Son
you’ve poured
upon the plangent wounds of death,
by Eve constructed
as torture chambers of the soul.
This death you have destroyed
by building life.
Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.
O instrument of life
and joyful ornament,
and sweetener of all delights,
that in you will not fail.
Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.
Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
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