Saturday, June 8, 2019

Pentecost: Sext and None: from the old hymnals




The Liturgica Horarum provides only one of the old hymns for the little hours on Pentecost, that of Terce, Iam Christus astra ascénderat. Here are the hymns for Sext and None. In the Canterbury Hymnal one hymn was divided into three parts to provide hymns for the little hours on Pentecost. This explains why the hymn for Sext begins with ergo.

AD SEXTAM
             
 DE PATRIS ERGO LUMINE
 decorus ignis almus est,
 qui fida Christi pectora
colore verbi coplevit.

Impleta gaudent viscera
afflata sancto lumine.
Voces diverse intonant,
fantur dei magnalia.

Ex omni gente cogniti,
Grecis, Latinis, barbaris,
cunctisque ammirantibus
linguis loquntur omnium.
             
Dudum sacrata pectora
Sit laus patri cum genito

Therefore, from the light of the Father is the beautiful and strengthening fire, which fills the hearts of those faithful to Christ with the heat of the Word. Bodies, filled and inspired with holy light, rejoice. Voices of diverse languages thunder and speak of the wonders of God. Understood by every nation, Greeks, Romans, Barbarians, to the wonder of all, they speak in the languages of all.


AD NONAM

IUDEA TUNC INCREDULA
vesano turba spiritu
ructare musti crapulam
alumnos Christi concrepet,

sed signis & virtutibus
occurrit & docet Petrus;
falsos probavit perfidos
Iohelis testimonio.

 Hic, Chrisre, nunc paraclytus
per te pius nos visitet
terrae novansque faciem
culpis soluros recreet.

Dudum sacrata pectora
Sit laus patri cum genito

Then the unbelieving Jewish crowd in the insanity of its mind exclaims against the disciples of Christ saying that they are sputtering under the effect of too much new wine. But Peter confronts them and instructs them by signs and miraculous powers. He proves the infidels wrong by the testimony of Joel.  May that Comforter Spirit visit us now benignly by your agency, Christ, and fortify those who are released from sin, thus renewing the face of the earth.

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