T083 Felix namque es sacra virgo Maria

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Felix namque es sacra virgo Maria
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 3, ff. 166v-167r, I-Mfd [4], ff. 94v-95r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Felix namque es, sacra virgo Maria, et omni laude dignissima, quia ex te ortus est sol iustitiae, Christus deus noster. Sola cuius radiis tenebras repellis pectore nostro.

English translation: 

Happy indeed you are, holy virgin Mary, and exceedingly worthy of all praise, because from you arose the sun of justice, Christ our God. You alone can repulse the darkness from our hearts with your rays.

Subject: 
BVM; Incarnation
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Nativity of the BVM (RR)
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Felix ... noster = Responsory for the Nativity of the BVM, Cantus ID 006725

Literature: 
GASSER 1999
, 231-232
GASSER 2001
, 446
Further notes: