Pope Benedict XVI Quotes The Divine Poet Dante Alighieri In Speech to Members of Symposium on International Year of Astronomy
1 'Virgin Mother, daughter of your Son,
2 more humble and exalted than any other creature,
3 fixed goal of the eternal plan,
4 'you are the one who so ennobled human nature
5 that He, who made it first, did not disdain
6 to make Himself of its own making.
7 'Your womb relit the flame of love --
8 its heat has made this blossom seed
9 and flower in eternal peace.
10 'To us you are a noonday torch of charity,
11 while down below, among those still in flesh,
12 you are the living fountainhead of hope.
13 'Lady, you are so great and so prevail above,
14 should he who longs for grace not turn to you,
15 his longing would be doomed to wingless flight.
16 'Your loving kindness does not only aid
17 whoever seeks it, but many times
18 gives freely what has yet to be implored.
19 'In you clemency, in you compassion,
20 in you munificence, in you are…
2 more humble and exalted than any other creature,
3 fixed goal of the eternal plan,
4 'you are the one who so ennobled human nature
5 that He, who made it first, did not disdain
6 to make Himself of its own making.
7 'Your womb relit the flame of love --
8 its heat has made this blossom seed
9 and flower in eternal peace.
10 'To us you are a noonday torch of charity,
11 while down below, among those still in flesh,
12 you are the living fountainhead of hope.
13 'Lady, you are so great and so prevail above,
14 should he who longs for grace not turn to you,
15 his longing would be doomed to wingless flight.
16 'Your loving kindness does not only aid
17 whoever seeks it, but many times
18 gives freely what has yet to be implored.
19 'In you clemency, in you compassion,
20 in you munificence, in you are…