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“O viriditas digiti Dei …” by Saint Hildegard of Bingen 🇩🇪 (c. 1098 – 17 Sep 1179)
Translated from the Latin by Nathaniel M. Campbell
Responsory for St. Disibod
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R. O fresh viridity of God’s creative finger,
in which God planted his green vineyard
that glistens in the heights, a lofty pillar:
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R. How glorious you are as you prepare for God!
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V. And O, the mountain’s height!
O never shall you be laid low
when God marks the difference—
no, you stand yet afar, an exile,
but not ensnared by that brigand’s power
who snatches after you.
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R. How glorious you are as you prepare for God!
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Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
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R. How glorious you are as you prepare for God!