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Deus, qui beatam Ioannam Virginem ad fidem ac patriam tuendam mirabiliter suscitasti: da, quæsumus, eius intercessione; ut Ecclesia tua, hostium superatis insidiis, perpetua pace fruatur.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009
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Deus, qui beatam Ioannam Virginem ad fidem ac patriam tuendam mirabiliter suscitasti: da, quæsumus, eius intercessione; ut Ecclesia tua, hostium superatis insidiis, perpetua pace fruatur.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009
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However, when she came to the verse In caritate perpetua, she sang in German rather than Latin, but she sang it so beautifully that all swore that she sang with an angelic voice.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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Reqiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
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But in both the Offertory and the Responsory calm is restored by the idea of light: ‘let Saint Michael bring them forth into Thy holy light’ in the Offertory, and ‘lux perpetua’ ‘light perpetual’ in the Responsory.
Archive 2009-03-01 Lu 2009
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Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
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Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
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June 22nd, 2007 requiem aeternam dona eis, domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
requiem aeternam dona eis, domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. matociquala 2007
Prolagus commented on the word perpetua
In the Italian historical novel I promessi sposi ("The Betrothed"), Perpetua is the talkative housekeeper of Don Abbondio, the parish priest.
By antonomasia, the term has become a synonym for "priest's housekeeper".
August 29, 2009