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Mykola Dyletsky. «O sweetest Virgin Mary»

Dyletsky composed the concert «O Sweetest Virgin Mary» dedicated to the Mother of God on the basis of an extra-liturgical text, possibly translated from the Polish language (in Catholicism, the cult of Virgin Mary is even deeper than in Orthodoxy).

The verbal text brings together a personal («Unto thee I fly», «Do not hide thy face from me, a sinner», «Deliver me, o Virgin, save Me, o Mother») and a collective prayful requests to Virgin Mary («accept our prayers»). Guided by this idea, Dyletsky built this piece on the contrast of ensemble and choral, two-beat and three-beat, declamatory and dancing episodes, producing a rich emotional palette of a fervent prayer.

English translation

O sweetest Virgin Mary,
with a broken and contrite heart
I beseech thee:
accept our prayers,
o saint Virgin!
Unto thee, o most merciful Mother,
I fly, a sinner,
unto thee, a sinner,
unto thee, o heavenly sweetness,
unto thee, o Mother, I fly:
accept our prayers,
o saint Virgin!
Do not hide
thy benevolent ears
from our supplication:
accept our prayers,
o saint Virgin!
Do not hide thy face
from me, a sinner,
I beseech thee.
Deliver me, o Virgin,
save me, o Mother,
deliver me, o Lady.

O most merciful Virgin Mary,
give contrition to my heart
and restraint to my body,
drive away my enemies,
receive me under thy shroud of grace,
turn the rebuke of the terrible Judge
into mercy,
O Virgin, and have pity on me.

Source unknown. Translated by Halyna Hlodz.

Original text

Сладчайшая Дѣво Марие,
сердцем сокрушенным
и смиренным Ти молюся:
прими наша мольбы,
Дѣво Святая!
К Тебѣ грѣшный,
Премилостивая Мати, прибѣгаю,
к Тебѣ грѣшный,
к Тебѣ, Сладосте райская,
к Тебѣ, Мати, прибѣгаю:
прими наша мольбы,
Дѣво Святая!
Не отврати
Благодетельных уши
От моления нашего:
прими наша мольбы,
Дѣво Святая!
Не отврати, Дѣво,
от мене грѣшнаго,
лица Твоего, молю Ти ся.
Избави мя, Дѣво,
Сохрани мя, Мати,
избави мя, Девице,

Премилостивая Дѣво Марие,
сердце даждь смиренно,
тѣлу воздержание,
отжени враги,
прими под кров Твой милости,
и страшнаго судии прещения
в чловѣколюбие обрати,
Дѣво, и помилуй мя.

Source unknown.

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