III. NATIVITAS DOMINI
[English]
In natale Salvatoris
Angelorum nostra chorus
Succinat conditio:
Harmonia diversorum,
Sed in unum redactorum
Dulcis est connexio.
Felix dies hodiernus,
In quo patri coaeternus
Nascitur ex Virgine!
Felix dies et jocundus!
Illustrari gaudet mundus
Veri solis lumine.
Ne periret homoreus
Redemptorum misit Deus,
Pater unigenitum;
Visitavit quos amavit
Nosque vitae revocavit
Gratia, non meritum.
Infinitus et immensus
Quem non capit ullus sensus
Nec locorum spatia,
Ex aeterno temporalis,
Ex immenso fit localis,
Ut restauret omnia!
Non peccatum, sed peccati
Formam sumens, vetustati
Nostrae se contemperat:
Immortalis se mortali,
Spiritalis corporali,
Ut natura conferat.
Sic concurrunt in personae
Singularis unione
Verbum, caro, spiritus,
Ut natura non mutetur,
Nec persona geminetur,
Sed sit una penitus.
Tantae rei sacramentum
Latet hostem fraudulentum;
Fallitur malitia.
Caecus hostis non praesagit
Quod sub nube carnis agit
Dei sapientia.
Hujus nodum sacramenti
Non subtilis argumenti
Solvit inquisitio.
Modum nosse non est meum;
Scio tamen posse Deum
Quod non capit ratio.
Quam subtile Dei consilium!
Quam sublime rei mysterium!
Virga florem,
Vellus rorem,
Virgo profert filium.
Nec pudorum laesit conceptio,
Nec virorem floris emissio;
Concipiens
Et pariens
Comparatur lilio.
O Maria, stella maris,
Post Deum spes singularis
Naufragantis saeculi,
Vide quam nos fraudulenter,
Quam nos vexant violenter
Tot et tales aemuli.
Per te virtus nobis detur
Per te, mater, exturbetur
Daemonum superbia;
Tuae proli nos commenda,
Ne nos brevis, sed tremenda
Feriat sententia.
Jesu, noster salutaris,
Qui prudenter operaris
Salutis mysterium,
His qui colunt hunc natalem
De salutem temporalem,
Da perhenne gaudium!
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III. CHRISTMAS
[Latin]
Since a Saviour is born for us,
With the angels in glad chorus
Let our race unite to-day:
Sweetly sound such hymns uprising,
Different voices harmonizing
All their praises in one lay.
Happy day, when the Supernal,
With the Father co-eternal,
Of a Virgin comes to birth!
Day of joy and jubilation,
When the bright illumination
Of the true Sun lights glad earth!
God hath a Redeemer given,
His, the Father's, Son from Heaven,
That a sinner should not die:
It is grace alone, not merit,
Gives us new life through the Spirit,
Visiting God's family.
Infinite and in all places,
He, whom sense and earth's wide spaces
Comprehend not nor contain,
Though eternal, time obeyeth,
And, though everywhere, here stayeth,
All things to restore again!
He sin's form, without sin, weareth,
And, to be made like us, shareth
Our worn-out existence here;
That the temporal and eternal,
That the spiritual and carnal,
Natures might thus linked appear.
So the Word and Flesh and Spirit
Doth one Person thus inherit
In mysterious union,
That no change its nature showeth,
Nor two-fold that Person groweth,
But is altogether one.
This great mystery lies ever
Hidden from man's base deceiver,
And at fault his malice is:
That the wisdom of the Godhead
'Neath the veil of flesh is shrouded
Our blind enemy ne'er sees.
This deep mystery's complication
No abstruse investigation
By induction can explain.
'Tis not mine to know its measure,
But I wot that God's good pleasure
Rules where reason cannot strain.
O how deep the counsel of God appears!
How sublime the mystery it declares!
Rod a flower,
Fleece a shower,
And a Son a Virgin bears.
Her conception hurt not her chastity,
Nor its blooming that ever verdant tree;
In conceiving
And birth-giving,
Lily-like, still pure is she!
Mar, star of ocean! giving
To this shipwrecked age we live in
After God its hope alone!
See what rival machinations,
And what fierce and dire temptations
Vex us sorely every one.
Virtue unto us be given,
And demonic pride be driven
Far away from us by Thee;
To thine offspring O commend us,
Lest His brief but most tremendous
Sentence crush us utterly.
Jesu, Who art out salvation,
Who its wondrous operation
With such wisdom watchest o'er!
Those, who keep this day, defending,
Here Thy help to them extending,
Grant them joy for evermore!
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INDEX
[English]
In natale Salvatoris
Angelorum nostra chorus
Succinat conditio:
Harmonia diversorum,
Sed in unum redactorum
Dulcis est connexio.
Felix dies hodiernus,
In quo patri coaeternus
Nascitur ex Virgine!
Felix dies et jocundus!
Illustrari gaudet mundus
Veri solis lumine.
Ne periret homo
Redemptorum misit Deus,
Pater unigenitum;
Visitavit quos amavit
Nosque vitae revocavit
Gratia, non meritum.
Infinitus et immensus
Quem non capit ullus sensus
Nec locorum spatia,
Ex aeterno temporalis,
Ex immenso fit localis,
Ut restauret omnia!
Non peccatum, sed peccati
Formam sumens, vetustati
Nostrae se contemperat:
Immortalis se mortali,
Spiritalis corporali,
Ut natura conferat.
Sic concurrunt in personae
Singularis unione
Verbum, caro, spiritus,
Ut natura non mutetur,
Nec persona geminetur,
Sed sit una penitus.
Tantae rei sacramentum
Latet hostem fraudulentum;
Fallitur malitia.
Caecus hostis non praesagit
Quod sub nube carnis agit
Dei sapientia.
Hujus nodum sacramenti
Non subtilis argumenti
Solvit inquisitio.
Modum nosse non est meum;
Scio tamen posse Deum
Quod non capit ratio.
Quam subtile Dei consilium!
Quam sublime rei mysterium!
Virga florem,
Vellus rorem,
Virgo profert filium.
Nec pudorum laesit conceptio,
Nec virorem floris emissio;
Concipiens
Et pariens
Comparatur lilio.
O Maria, stella maris,
Post Deum spes singularis
Naufragantis saeculi,
Vide quam nos fraudulenter,
Quam nos vexant violenter
Tot et tales aemuli.
Per te virtus nobis detur
Per te, mater, exturbetur
Daemonum superbia;
Tuae proli nos commenda,
Ne nos brevis, sed tremenda
Feriat sententia.
Jesu, noster salutaris,
Qui prudenter operaris
Salutis mysterium,
His qui colunt hunc natalem
De salutem temporalem,
Da perhenne gaudium!
-----
III. CHRISTMAS
[Latin]
Since a Saviour is born for us,
With the angels in glad chorus
Let our race unite to-day:
Sweetly sound such hymns uprising,
Different voices harmonizing
All their praises in one lay.
Happy day, when the Supernal,
With the Father co-eternal,
Of a Virgin comes to birth!
Day of joy and jubilation,
When the bright illumination
Of the true Sun lights glad earth!
God hath a Redeemer given,
His, the Father's, Son from Heaven,
That a sinner should not die:
It is grace alone, not merit,
Gives us new life through the Spirit,
Visiting God's family.
Infinite and in all places,
He, whom sense and earth's wide spaces
Comprehend not nor contain,
Though eternal, time obeyeth,
And, though everywhere, here stayeth,
All things to restore again!
He sin's form, without sin, weareth,
And, to be made like us, shareth
Our worn-out existence here;
That the temporal and eternal,
That the spiritual and carnal,
Natures might thus linked appear.
So the Word and Flesh and Spirit
Doth one Person thus inherit
In mysterious union,
That no change its nature showeth,
Nor two-fold that Person groweth,
But is altogether one.
This great mystery lies ever
Hidden from man's base deceiver,
And at fault his malice is:
That the wisdom of the Godhead
'Neath the veil of flesh is shrouded
Our blind enemy ne'er sees.
This deep mystery's complication
No abstruse investigation
By induction can explain.
'Tis not mine to know its measure,
But I wot that God's good pleasure
Rules where reason cannot strain.
O how deep the counsel of God appears!
How sublime the mystery it declares!
Rod a flower,
Fleece a shower,
And a Son a Virgin bears.
Her conception hurt not her chastity,
Nor its blooming that ever verdant tree;
In conceiving
And birth-giving,
Lily-like, still pure is she!
Mar, star of ocean! giving
To this shipwrecked age we live in
After God its hope alone!
See what rival machinations,
And what fierce and dire temptations
Vex us sorely every one.
Virtue unto us be given,
And demonic pride be driven
Far away from us by Thee;
To thine offspring O commend us,
Lest His brief but most tremendous
Sentence crush us utterly.
Jesu, Who art out salvation,
Who its wondrous operation
With such wisdom watchest o'er!
Those, who keep this day, defending,
Here Thy help to them extending,
Grant them joy for evermore!
-----
INDEX
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