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The Latin That Got Left On the Moon

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Nimāparha In a gesture of international goodwill, the Apollo XI mission requested messages from every country, which would be placed in a capsule and left on the moon. Paul VI had the Vatican message written in Latin. It read:

Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super caelos.

Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos, ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.

Quoniam videbo caelos tuos, opera digitorum tuorum, lunam et stellas quae tu fundasti.

Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?

Minuisti eum paulominus ab angelis; gloria et honore coronasti eum;

et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus, oves et boves universas, insuper et pecora campi,

volucres caeli, et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.

Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

Psalmus 8.

Ad Dei nominis gloriam, qui tantam praestat hominibus virtutem, miro huic incepto bene precamur.

Paulus PP. VI. A.D. 1969

 

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