Tuesday, August 4, 2020

St. Dominic: Matins: Aquinas Byrnes OP, The Hymns of the Dominican Missal and Breviary

St Dominic and the Albigenses by BERRUGUETE, Pedro

 

l. Hymnum novæ lætitiæ,

Dulci productum cantico,

Noster depromat hodie

Chorus sancto Dominico.

 

2. Vergente mundi vespere,

Novum sidus exoritur, 

clausis culpæ carcere

ræco salutis mittitur.

 

3. Doctrinam evangelicam

Spargens per orbis cardinem,

Pestem fugat hæreticam

Novum producens Ordinem.

 

4. Hic est fons ille modicus

Crescens in flumen maximum,

Qui mundo jam mirificus

Potum largitur optimum.

 

5.Trino Deo et simplici

Laus, honor, virtus, gloria,

Qui nos prece Dominici

Ducat ad cæli gaudia.

 

 

Come, let our choir, this happy day,

Prolong its sweet, melodious lay:

And hymns of new-felt joy proclaim

The praise of Dominic's great name.

 

The world at its dim vespertide

This brightly glittering star descried,

Herald of freedom's light uprisen

To souls detained in sin's dark prison.

 

He spreads abroad the Gospel sound,

Even to earth's remotest bound,

And with his new-formed ranks subdued

And banished heresy's false brood.

 

He was the well-spring from whose tide

Swelled the rich river, deep and wide,

A living flood still rolling forth

Its healing waters through the earth.

 

Unto the sacred One and Three

Praise, honor, strength and glory be:

And may He grant our souls to rise,

Through Dominic's pleading, to the skies.


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