VI. O pastor animarum
O Shepherd of Souls
A solemn antiphon invoking Christ as the shepherd of souls and the primordial voice of creation, pleading for deliverance from human misery and frailty.
Antiphon: O shepherd of souls, and O first voice, through whom we were all created, now to you, to you may it please, that you would deign to free us from our miseries and weaknesses.
Read the original Latin
Antiphona: O pastor animarum, et o prima vox, per quam omnes creati sumus, nunc tibi, tibi placeat, ut digneris nos liberare de miseriis et languoribus nostris.
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