Felix Anima
Yearning for the Lost Garment
The soul sighs for the sweet divinity and the gentle life, longing to receive back the splendid garment of original righteousness lost at the dawn of creation.
O sweet divinity, and O gentle life, in which I will bear through that splendid garment, receiving back what I lost at the first appearing — I sigh for you, and I call upon all the Virtues.✦
Read the original Latin
O dulcis divinitas, et o suavis vita, in qua perferam vestem preclaram, illud accipiens quod perdidi in prima apparitione, ad te suspiro, et omnes Virtutes invoco.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gen.3.21 — And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
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