Catholic Activity: Beautiful, Glorious
Words to a hymn that can be sung on Marian feast days. The text, 18th century; melody, Geistliche Gesänge, Einsiedeln, 1773.
DIRECTIONS
1. Beautiful, glorious, o'er all victorious, Lovely, thrice blessed heavenly Queen. Thy child forever, leaving thee never Body and Spirit I ever have been. My life despising, Thee only prizing, All that I am, that I ever can be Give I, my Mother Maria, to Thee.
2. Thou art all full of grace, in Thee sin has no place, Thou, O Maria, Thou only art fair. And to Thy majesty nothing can wanting be, All that is perfect and lovely is there. Vase of election, of all perfection, Thou art, O Virgin, so wondrously made, That God Thee chose and in glory arrayed.
Activity Source: Around the Year with the Trapp Family by Maria Augusta Trapp, Pantheon Books Inc., New York, New York, 1955
