Fuit vir unus de Ramáthaim Sophim, de monte Ephraim.  Potest, hujus montis nómine, beatíssima semper Virgo María, Dei Génitrix, designári.  Mons quippe fuit, quæ omnem eléctæ creatúræ altitúdinem, electiónis suæ dignitáte, transcéndit.  An non mons sublímis María, quæ, ut ad conceptiónem ætérni Verbi pertíngeret, meritórum vérticem, supra omnes Angelórum choros, usque ad sólium Deitátis eréxit?  Hujus enim montis præcellentíssimam dignitátem Isaías vatícinans, ait : Erit in novíssimis diébus præparátus mons domus Dómini in vértice móntium fuit, quia altitúdo Maríæ supra omnes Sanctos refúlsit.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim of Mount Ephraim.  The Mount, whence this man came forth, mindeth us of the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.  For she is like unto a mountain, in that she is raised up above the height of any other elect creature by the dignity to which she was preferred.  Did not Mary, like as a wondrous mountain of holiness, tower to a height above all the angelic choirs, so as to approach toward the very throne of God, in that she reached so high as to conceive the Eternal Word?  Now Isaias hath a prophecy concerning the most excellent dignity of such a mountain : And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains.  And verily Mary, in the height of her holiness, sitteth on high, above all the other Saints, like as a lofty mountain piled on top of another range of lofty mountains.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.