Extollens vocem

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Source of text is Luke 11:27b-28.

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Gregorian chant
Francesco Bianciardi SSATTB

Text and translations

Latin text

27b Extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba, dixit:
'Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quae suxisti.'
28 At Iesus ait illi: 'Quinimmo beati, qui audiunt verbum Dei, et custodiunt illud.'

English translation

27b A certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him:
Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the breasts that gave thee suck.
28 But Jesus said to her: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.