LI. O ignis spiritus paracliti (Sequentia de spiritu sancto)
O Fire of the Spirit
The opening invocation names the Holy Spirit as the Paraclete, the life of all creation, and the source of all living forms.
O fire of the Spirit, the Paraclete, life of the life of all creation—you are holy, giving life to every living thing.
Healing and Cleansing
The Spirit anoints the dangerously broken and cleanses foul wounds.
Holy, you anoint those dangerously broken; holy, you cleanse foul wounds.
Sweetness and the Fragrance of Virtue
The Spirit is celebrated as breath of holiness, fire of love, sweet taste in the heart, and the outpouring of virtue's fragrance.
O breath of holiness, O fire of love, O sweet taste in our hearts and outpouring of hearts in the good fragrance of the virtues.
The Pure Fountain
In the most pure fountain of the Spirit, God is recognized as the one who gathers the estranged and seeks the lost.
O most pure fountain, in which it is recognized that God gathers the estranged and seeks the lost.
Breastplate and Belt of Salvation
The Spirit is the breastplate of life, the hope uniting all members, and the belt of honor who saves the blessed.
O breastplate of life and hope of the joining of all members, and O belt of honor, save the blessed.
Liberation of the Captives
The Spirit guards those imprisoned by the enemy and looses those bound whom divine power wills to save.
Guard those imprisoned by the enemy, and loose those bound, whom divine power wills to save.
The Mightiest Way
The Spirit is the mightiest way that penetrates all things—heavenly, earthly, and abyssal—gathering and composing all things together.
O mightiest way, which penetrated all things in the highest and in the earthly and in every abyss—you gather and compose all things.
Creation's Dependence on the Spirit
From the Spirit flow clouds, flying sky, moist stones, flowing streams, and the greening earth.
From you the clouds flow, the sky flies, the stones hold moisture, the waters lead forth streams, and the earth sweats greenness.
Wisdom and Final Praise
The Spirit leads the learned out in gladness through wisdom's inspiration, and is praised as the sound of praise, joy of life, hope, strongest honor, and giver of light's rewards.
You always lead the learned out, too — those made glad by the inspiration of wisdom. So let praise be to you, who are the sound of praise and the joy of life, hope and the strongest honor, giving the rewards of light.
Read the original Latin
O ignis spiritus paracliti, vita vite omnis creature, sanctus es vivificando formas. Sanctus es ungendo periculose fractos, sanctus es tergendo fetida vulnera. O spiraculum sanctitatis, o ignis caritatis, o dulcis gustus in pectoribus et infusio cordium in bono odore virtutum. O fons purissime, in quo consideratur, quod deus alienos colligit et perditos requirit. O lorica vite et spes compaginis membrorum omnium et o cingulum honestatis, salva beatos. Custodi eos, qui carcerati sunt ab inimico, et solve ligatos, quos divina vis salvare vult. O iter fortissimum, quod penetravit omnia in altissimis et in terrenis et in omnibus abyssis, tu omnes componis et colligis. De te nubes fluunt, ether volat, lapides humorem habent, aque rivulos educunt et terra viriditatem sudat.
Tu etiam semper educis doctos, per inspirationem sapientie letificatos. Unde laus tibi sit, qui es sonus laudis et gaudium vite, spes et honor fortissimus, dans premia lucis.
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