Monday, January 16, 2017

PRO RELIGIOSIS: S. ANTONII, ABBATIS




Ad Officium lectionis & ad Vesperas: novus

Læti coléntes fámulum
qui te perfécte cóluit,
tibi gratánter, Dómine,
amóris hymnum prómimus.

Christi fidélis assecla,
ultro relíquit gáudia
cuncta quæ mundus éxhibet
fugáces atque cópias.

Tibi se vovit súbditum
humilitáte obœdiens,
Christi, carnis mundítie,
sponsi æmulátor vírginum.

Tibi placére géstiit
tibíque adhæsit únice,
mentem, verba vel ópera
amóris fovens ígnibus.

His caritátis vínculis
in terris tibi déditus,
liber ad astra iúgiter
triumphatúrus pródiit.

Eius exémplis éxcitos
da gradi nos alácriter,
ut te cum Nato et Spíritu
laudémus hymnis cælicis. Amen.

Joyfully we honor your servant, who honored you perfectly, O Lord, to you we gratefully offer a hymn of love. A faithful follower of Christ,  he freely renounced all joys which the world can give and its fleeting wealth. He vowed submission to you, humbly obedient, in chastity of flesh he imitated Christ the spouse of virgins. Eager to please you, he clung to you only, fostering mind, words and deeds with the fire of love. Through these bonds of love he dedicated himself to you on earth,  unencumbered he went on perpetually to triumph among the stars. Grant that we, aroused by his example might step forward quickly that we may with heavenly hymns praise you with the Son and Spirit. Amen.

Ad Laudes matutinas: novus

O redemptóris píetas colénda,
quæ Patri exóptans hómines dicári,
Spíritus miro varióque ducis
  péctora nutu!

Quos tua lympha facis esse natos
ex Deo vero, nova vis in illis
grátiam crebro dare caritátis
  gérmina, Christe.

Tu vocas: currunt álacres vocáti,
ábdicant cunctis, duce te voléntes,
calle regáli crucis, usque solum
  quærere Patrem.

Cælitus fervens ita sanctus iste
víribus totis tibi amánter hæsit,
atque virtútum cúpiit tenére
  cúlmina læta.

Laus Patri summo, tibi, Christe princeps,
Flámini Sancto párilis resúltet,
parva qui danti, bona corde magno
  céntupla fertis. Amen.

O worthy love of the Redeemer, which desires that men be called to the Father, you lead them in the wondrous and varied ways of the Spirit, by beckoning the heart.  Those whom you have made sons of the true God by your baptismal waters, you often wish to give grace by new seeds of love, O Christ. You call and those called run quickly,  leaving everything behind, taking you as their leader, on the royal road of the cross, to seek the Father alone. On fire for heaven, so this saint lovingly adhered to you with all his might and desired to grasp the happy pinnacle of the virtues. May praise resound to the highest Father and to you, O princely Christ,  equally to the fiery Spirit, who grants to the poor of a pure heart to bring forth goods a hundredfold. Amen.

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