All the hymns for Trinity Sunday are new and all were
composed by Dom Anselmo Lentini. However
accomplished Dom Anselmo may have been, very accomplished, one has to say, he
had a vast number of traditional hymns for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity,
which he could have used instead.
Ad I & II Vesperas
Imménsa
et una, Trínitas,
cuius
potéstas ómnia
facit
regítque témpora
et
exstat ante sæcula,
Tu
sola pleno súfficis
tibi
beáta gáudio;
tu
pura, simplex, próvida
cælos
et orbem cóntines.
Omnis,
Pater, fons grátiæ,
Lumen
patérnæ glóriæ,
Sancte
utriúsque Spíritus
intermináta
cáritas,
Ex
te supréma orígine,
Trias
benígna, prófluit
creáta
quicquid sústinet,
quicquid
decóre pérficit.
Quos
et coróna múneras
adoptiónis
íntimæ,
nos
templa fac niténtia
tibi
placére iúgiter.
O
viva lux, nos ángelis
da
iungi in aula cælica,
ut
grati amóris láudibus
te
concinámus pérpetim. Amen.
You are boundless and one, O Trinity, whose power
creates and governs all time, and exists before the ages. You alone are blessed
in yourself are sufficient for the fullness of joy; you are perfect, simple,
providentially holding in existence the heavens and all the world. O Father,
the source of all grace, O light of the Father’s splendor, O Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son,
endless love. From you the first cause, O good Trinity, flows that which
sustains created things, that which perfects them in beauty. Those whom you
have crowned with the gifts of adoption
as sons, make shining temples ever pleasing to you. O living light, grant that we may be united to the angels in the heavenly
courts that we may forever gratefully sing of you in loving praise. Amen.
Ad Officium lectionis
Te
Patrem summum genitúmque Verbum
Flamen
ac Sanctum Dóminum faténtur
únicum,
quotquot paradísi
hortus adúnat.
Quam
modis miris, Trias alma, vivas
pércipit
nemo, tamen usque in ævum
cælites
vultu sátias, alácri
voce canéntes.
Te
canunt mundi statuísse molem,
Lúmine
ætérno régere univérsa,
ígnibus
celsi refovére Amóris
corda tuórum.
Mente
permísti súperum catérvis,
iam
choris illis sociámus hymnos,
qui
tua optámus fore sempitérna
pace beáti. Amen.
You most high Father and Word to the nations are
confessed to be one Lord; may as many as are gathered in the pleasant garden of
paradise acknowledge you. No one understands
how wondrous you are, O loving Trinity, but forever you satisfy the
inhabitants of heaven with the vision of your countenance, as they sing to you
with joyful voices. They sing that you
created the great mass of the world, that you rule all things with eternal
light, that you warm with the fire of heavenly love those who belong to you. Even now you allow us in our souls to sing
hymns with the gathered choirs of heaven, the blessed, whom we hope to join in
your peace. Amen.
Ad Laudes matutinas
Trínitas,
summo sólio corúscans,
glóriæ
carmen tibi sit perénne,
quæ
tenes nostri veheménti amóre
péctoris ima.
Cónditor
rerum, Pater, alma virtus,
quos
tuæ vitæ facis atque formæ
esse
consórtes, fídei fac usque
dona meréri.
Candor
ætérnæ speculúmque lucis
Nate,
quos dicis sociásque fratres,
pálmites
viti tibi nos inésse
da viridántes.
Cáritas,
ignis, píetas, poténti
lúmine
ac blando móderans creáta,
Spíritus,
mentem rénova, fovéto
íntima cordis.
Hospes
o dulcis, Trias obsecránda,
nos
tibi iugi fac amóre nexos,
pérpetes
donec modulémur hymnos
teque fruámur. Amen.
O Trinity resplendent on your lofty throne, may a
hymn of glory be sung to you forever,
you who hold the strongest love deep within our hearts. Creator of all things, Father, loving power, who make us to share in
your image and life, make us worthy of such gifts of faith. O Son, splendor and mirror of eternal light,
you call us and make us your brothers, grant that we may be flourishing
branches of your vine. Love, fire, goodness,
you govern all created things with powerful and peaceful light; O Spirit, renew
minds, nurture the inner the inner most parts of the heart. O sweet host, Trinity worthy of all our
homage, make us to be joined to you by the bond of love until at last we enjoy
you and sing hymns to you forever. Amen.
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