In the Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis this hymn was sung at Terce on all solemnities of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is interesting that this hymn appears in the Liturgica horarm for the memorial of the Queenship of Mary not because in it Mary is called a ‘queen’ but solely because of the reference to her Davidic descent.
O
quam glorífica luce corúscas,
stirpis
Davídicæ régia proles,
sublímis
résidens, virgo María,
supra
cælígenas ætheris omnes.
Tu,
cum virgíneo mater honóre,
cælórum
Dómino péctoris aulam
sacris
viscéribus casta parásti;
natus
hinc Deus est córpore Christus:
Quem
cunctus vénerans orbis adórat,
cui
nunc rite genu fléctitur omne,
a
quo te pétimus subveniénte
abiéctis
ténebris gáudia lucis.
Hoc
largíre, Pater lúminis omnis,
Natum
per próprium, Flámine Sancto,
qui
tecum nítida vivit in æthra
regnans
ac móderans sæcula cuncta. Amen.
O with what glorious light you shine, royal
offspring of the branch of David, enthroned on high, O Virgin Mary, over all
the heavenly born. You, a mother honored with virginity, your heart a palace
for the Lord of heaven, you prepared a place for him within your holy womb,
there God-Christ was born in a body. He whom all the world worships and adores.
Before whom every knee is rightly bended, from whom, we ask you that you dispel
the darkness with the joy of light. Grant this, O Father of all light, through
your Son in the Holy Spirit, who with you lives in heavenly brightness, ruling
and governing all things. Amen.
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