# A little ex-voto offering

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 1, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-ex-voto-offering/552219 "2010-09-01T01:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-ex-voto-offering/552219/1 "2010-09-01T01:53:20Z")

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So, I received some very good news today, something that I had wanted to happen and had given up on thinking would happen—but happen it did!

I may also have made a deal that my thanks would be profuse and public, so enjoy the accompanying little video. Sorry for the cheesy images it uses.  
[Magnificat anima mea Dominum.  
Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.  
Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae; ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes.  
Quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est, et sanctum nomen eius.  
Et misericordia a progenie et progenies timentibus eum.  
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo, dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.  
Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles.  
Esurientes implevit bonis, et divites dimisit inanes.  
Suscepit Israel puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae suae.  
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham, et semini eius in saecula.  
Gloria Patri, gloria Filio, gloria et Spiritui Sancto! Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt6kaN4fwY)

_in GD under the witnessing clause_

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**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-ex-voto-offering/552219/2 "2010-09-01T02:04:08Z")

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Congratulations on the good news, and time listening to the Magnificat is time well spent.

Perhaps you’ll enjoy the [Spem in Alium](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJDLQZWKWe8&p=246108ED8720E709&playnext=1&index=4).

Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te  
Deus Israel  
qui irasceris  
et propitius eris  
et omnia peccata hominum in tribulatione dimittis  
Domine Deus  
Creator coeli et terrae  
respice humilitatem nostram