Monastic Office: SS. Joachim and Anne

If I Vespers is said and/or Matins: 

Gaude, mater Anna,

gaude mater sancta,

cum sis Dei facta

genetricis Dei.

Plaude tali natae

virgini Mariae;

eius genitore

Ioachim congaude

In hac nostra terra

primo benedicta,

quae fuit in Eva

quondam maledicta.

Ergo sume laudes

quas damus ovantes;

nos ab omni sorde

tua prece terge.

Sit laus Deo Patri,

summo Christo decus,

Spiritui Sancto

honor, tribus unus.

MOTHER Anne, be joyful;

Sing, O mother holy,

Since thou art the parent

Of God's Mother lowly.

PRAISE thy wondrous daughter;

Joachim, too, raises

To the Virgin Mary

His paternal praises.

FOR in her our planet

First hath benediction

Which in hapless Eva

Suffered malediction.

THEREFORE, take the praises

Joyous hearts are paying;

And from all defilement

Cleanse us by thy praying.

FATHER, Son eternal,

Holy Ghost supernal,

With one praise we bless thee,

Three in One confess thee. Amen.

Lauds

Succedit nocti lucifer,

quem mox aurora sequitur,
solis ortum praenuntians
lustrantis orbem lumine.

Christus sol est iustitiae,

aurora Mater gratiae,

quam, Anna, praeit rutilans

legis propellens tenebras

Anna, radix, uberrima,
arbor tu salutifera,
virgam producens floridam
quae Christum nobis attulit.

Gloria tibi Domine,

Qui natus es de virgine,

Cum patre, et sancto spiritu,

In sempiterna saecula. Amen.

THE morning star succeeds to night,

The dawn soon follows, growing white

To herald in the sunrise bright 

That floods the waking world with light.

Christ is the sun of righteousness,

The dawn, the Mother full of grace;

Bright Anne precedes her, like the star,

To drive the shades of  law afar.

Lo, Anne; the very fruitful root,

The tree of healing, whence a shoot        

To richest blossoming did spring,

And brought us Christ: to whom we sing,

All honor, laud, and glory be,

O Jesu, Virgin-born, to thee;

All glory, as is ever meet,

To Father and to Paraclete. Amen.

II Vespers

Omnis sanctörum cöncio

Matrem collåudet Virginis,

De cuius puerpério

Salus procéssit höminis.

Hæc prolem devotissime

Pétiit a Patre lüminum,

Et méruit dignissime

Mariam decus virginum.

Ex Iöachim, quem häbuit

Vitæ virum eximium,

Anna Mariam génuit,

Matrem Regis iustitiæ.

Stirps Jesse clara déluit

Evæ matris opprobrium,

Dum Anna prolem génuit,

Florem Sanctorum Omnium.

Glöria tibi, D6mine,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Cum Patre, et Sancto Spiritu,

In sempitérna saecula. Amen.

LET all the Saints in concert sing,

The mother of that Maid to laud,

By whose unstained Childbearing

Salvation came to men from God.

She sought her faithful progeny

From God the Father, Lord of light;

And merited most worthily

The pride of Virgins, Mary bright.

To Joachim, esteemed the peer

Of any in his goodliness,

Anne brought forth Mary, Mother dear

Of Jesus, King of righteousness.

Let Jesse's noble stock efface

From Mother Eve her olden taints:

Anne bears her child, the child of grace,

The fairest blossom of the Saints.

All glory, praise, and honor be,

O Lord, the Virgin-born, to thee;

All glory, as is ever meet,

To Father and to Paraclete. Amen.