Mozarabic Hymn: Holy Wednesday: Vespers

Jam legis umbra clauditur,

Novumque Phasse * prodiit,

Cum vera lux in vesperum

Mundi suborta promicat.

Hinc Christe rex post biduum

Coenae litas convivium,

Quo pascha pridem mysticum

In pascha nostrum vertitur.

 Audi fidelium preces,

Qui traditorem passus es;

Hac nocte nos inlumina,

Carnem lava, cor praepara.

Ardor tuae dulcedinis

Interna nostra concremet;

Fides paratos innovet,

Opusque ad regnum vocet.

 Ut, suavitate gratiae

Hinc advocati, in crastinum

Inebriemur poculis

Tui sacrati sanguinis.

Deo Patri sit gloria,

Ejusque soli Filio,

Cum Spiritu Paraclito,

Regnans per omne saeculum.

   Amen.

*Blume & John Mason Neale: phase for Phasse.

Now the shadow of the law is concluded and a new time comes forth, when the true light shines as the light of the world declines into evening.  After the next two days, O Christ the King,  you will sacrifice at the banquet of the Cenacle, when the old Passover becomes our mystical Easter. Hear the prayers of the faithful, you who have suffered betrayal, on that night enlighten us, purify our bodies, prepare our hearts. May the ardor of our goodness make us burn within; renew in us ready faith and may our work call us to heaven, that called on the approaching day by your pleasing grace we may be inebriated by the cup of your holy blood.