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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by Joelle Wallach (b. 1946)

O magnum mysterium

(Sung text for setting by J. Wallach)

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Language: Latin

Our translations: DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE GER ITA

O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum
jacentem in praesepio.
 ...

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-4 of the original text.

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Joelle Wallach

Three Short Sacred Anthems

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by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "O magnum mysterium", from the Latin Liturgy

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DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "O groot mysterie", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Ton Rooijmans) , "O, groot mysterie", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Joelle Wallach) , "O great mystery", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "O great mystery", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Marianne Zanettin) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "O großes Mysterium", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "O grande mistero", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 25

O great mystery

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Wallach)

See original

Language: English after the Latin

O great mystery
and wondrous sacrament
that animals might see the newborn Lord
lying in a manger.

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-4 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

by Joelle Wallach (b. 1946), "O great mystery", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Based on:

a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "O magnum mysterium", from the Latin Liturgy
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 17