XII. Nunc aperuit (De sancta Maria)

The Opened Gate and the Virgin Flower

Mary opens the gate closed by the serpent's defeat and shines forth as the dawn's virgin flower.

Antiphon: Now the closed gate has been opened for us, because the serpent suffocated in the woman.^✦ From where it shines in the dawn, the flower from the virgin Mary.

Read the original Latin

Antiphona: Nunc aperuit nobis clausa porta, quod serpens in muliere suffocavit. Unde lucet in aurora flos de virgine Maria.

Scripture echoes

↩Gen.3.15 — I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

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