SS. MICHAELIS, GABRIELIS ET RAPHAELIS, ARCHANGELORUM

 

Attributed to Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856)

Text revised in 1600s by Pope Pius VII 

Ad Laudes matutinas: saec. X 

 SS. MICHAELIS, GABRIELIS ET RAPHAELIS, ARCHANGELORUM

Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris,

  vita, virtus córdium,

in conspéctu angelórum

  votis, voce psállimus;

alternántes concrepándo

  melos damus vócibus.

 

Collaudámus venerántes

  ínclitos archángelos,

sed præcípue primátem

  cæléstis exércitus,

Michaélem in virtúte

  conteréntem Sátanam.

 

Quo custóde procul pelle,

  rex Christe piíssime,

omne nefas inimíci;

  mundos corde et córpore

paradíso redde tuo

  nos sola cleméntia.

 

Glóriam Patri melódis

  personémus vócibus,

glóriam Christo canámus,

  glóriam Paráclito,

qui Deus trinus et unus

  exstat ante sæcula. Amen.

 

To you, O Christ, splendor of the Father, life and strength of hearts, in the presence of the angels, with prayers our voices sing hymns, by turns offering them with our voices.   We praise and venerate all the great archangels, but especially Michael, the primate of the heavenly hosts, by virtue of his crushing Satan.  O Christ our King, with him as guard, drive away all wickedness of the enemy; by your mercy alone return us, cleansed in heart and body, to your paradise. Let us sing hymns with our voices glory to the Father, let us sing glory to Christ, glory to the Paraclete, God, triune and one, who existed before the ages. Amen.