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O joy of the Elect, the son of Mary has returned to life, on the third day he rose from the dead, from the sepulcher, he departed from Hell, O consolation of all the pious and the Apostles; the Lord of eternal glory, the Triumph, appeared to Mary, accompanied the Disciples, loved the Apostles in return, the Spirit of holy grace overshadowed them, in their sight he ascended to the heavens, now he sits at the Right Hand of the Father, from whence he is to come to judge the living and the dead.
We shall therefore confess to him, who has shown his mercy to us: Let us bless the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit with an Eternal Blessing.
O Lord original: Κύριε, Fountain of goodness, essence of the most omnipotent and wise unbegotten Father, from whom all things proceed: have mercy. O Lord original: Κύριε, eternally merciful, who sent the one to suffer for the crime of nature and the world, so that he might save it: have mercy. O Lord original: Κύριε, who gives the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit original: πνεύματος, by whom heaven and earth are filled: have mercy.
O Holy Christ original: Χριστέ ἅγιε, eternal, chaste, truthful, pure, intelligent essence, possessor of heaven, melody of royal glory, to whom the summit of the Angels, always standing for the deity, sings: have mercy. O Christ original: Χριστέ, only-begotten of God the Father, whom the holy Prophets wondrously predicted would be born of a virgin to the world: have mercy. O Christ original: Χριστέ, be present from heaven to our prayers with bowed minds, whom we devotedly worship and adore on earth, to you we piously cry, O JESUS, have mercy.
O Lord original: Κύριε, nourishing Spirit, coherent, existing of one substance original: οὐσίας with the Father and the Son, standing from both: have mercy. O Lord original: Κύριε, who appeared shining with a dove-like form when Christ was baptized in the waves of the Jordan: have mercy. O Lord original: Κύριε, divine Fire, inflame our breasts, so that we may be equally worthy to praise you always, have mercy.
It is now for you, divine parent, and O infinite and glorious nature of nature original: natura naturans, to restore my soul, wasted by ignorance, with the splendor of your nourishing virtue. It is for you to revive, vivify, and sublimate the sparks of reason and wisdom—surviving after the fall of Adam and miserably submerged for a long time in the abyss of bodily darkness—with the admirable clarity of the holy Spirit of discipline, and to lead them to the true summit, fountain, and pinnacle of knowledge.
Let your will be done in the celestial and immortal part of me, man, just as in the earthly and mortal part, so that whatever may be produced by them and in them, all of that may be, with due consideration, a participant in your inexhaustible goodness. Thus shall this offering, consecration, and, as it were, my heartfelt sacrifice be pleasing to your sacrosanct Divinity: thus will the fruits of your goodness in me, receiving the rays of its own growth from your shining brow,