Ad Laudes matutinas:
novus
Præclára
qua tu glória,
Levi
beáte, cíngeris,
laus
est Dei cleméntiæ,
spes
nostra ad indulgéntiam.
Telóneo
quando ássidens
nummis
inhæres ánxius,
Matthæe,
Christus ádvocans
opes
tibi quas præparat!
Iam
cordis ardens ímpetu
curris,
Magístrum súscipis,
sermóne
factus ínclito
princeps
in urbe cælica.
Tu
verba vitæ cólligens
Davídque
facta Fílii,
per
scripta linquis áurea
cæléste
mundo pábulum.
Christum
per orbem núntians
conféssus
atque sánguine,
dilectiónis
vívidæ
suprémo
honóras pígnore.
O
martyr atque apóstole,
evangelísta
nóbilis,
tecum
fac omne in sæculum
Christo
canámus glóriam. Amen.
The resplendent glory with which you are girded,
O blessed Levi, is praise of God’s
mercy, our hope for pardon. When you were seated near the toll-booth, clinging
anxiously to your money, O Matthew, Christ called you to the riches which he had
prepared for you. Then compelled by the
ardor of your heart you run to receive the Master, who with his noble word
makes you a prince in the heavenly city.
Recording the words of life and the deeds of the Son of David, through
the precious scriptures you renounce the world for heavenly food.
Proclaiming Christ throughout the world, witnessing to him by shedding your
blood, you honor him with the highest
pledge of living love. O Martyr and Apostle, renown Evangelist, grant that we
with you in every age may sing the glory of Christ. Amen.
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