XXXV. O felix anima
The Soul's Triumph Over the World
The happy soul is celebrated for rising above the earthly pilgrimage and trampling down the vanity of the world.
Response: O happy soul, whose body has risen from the earth, which you have trampled down with the pilgrimage of this world.
Crowned in the Divine Mirror
The soul is crowned by divine rationality that has made it a mirror, and the Holy Spirit beholds it as a dwelling-place.
For from the divine rationality, which made you its own mirror, you are crowned. Verse: The Holy Spirit too beheld you as his own dwelling-place. For from the divine rationality, which made you its own mirror, you are crowned.
Doxology
Glory is rendered to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Crowned in the Divine Mirror (Reprise)
The soul is again crowned by divine rationality that made it a mirror.
For from the divine rationality, which made you its own mirror, you are crowned.
Read the original Latin
Responsum: O felix anima, cuius corpus de terra ortum est, quod tu cum peregrinatione huius mundi conculcasti. Unde de divina racionalitate, que te speculum suum fecit, coronata es. Versus: Spiritus sanctus etiam te ut habitaculum suum intuebatur. Unde de divina racionalitate, que te speculum suum fecit, coronata es. Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto. Unde de divina racionalitate, que te speculum suum fecit, coronata es.
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