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Beautiful. Thanks Fr. Z.
Nice way to bring the evening to its proper end.
Exsúltet cælum láudibus,
resúltet terra gáudiis:
Apostolórum glóriam
sacra canunt sollémnia.
Vos, sæcli iusti iúdices
et vera mundi lúmina,
votis precámur córdium,
audíte preces súpplicum.
Qui cælum verbo cláuditis
serásque eius sólvitis,
nos a peccátis ómnibus
sólvite iussu, quæsumus.
Quorum præcépto súbditur
salus et languor ómnium,
sanáte ægros móribus,
nos reddéntes virtútibus,
Ut, cum iudex advénerit
Christus in fine sæculi,
nos sempitérni gáudii
fáciat esse cómpotes.
Deo sint laudes glóriæ,
qui dat nos evangélicis
per vos doctrínis ínstrui
et prósequi cæléstia.
Amen.
V. Annuntiaverunt opera Dei.
R. Et facta ejus intellexerunt
I believe they are chanting the hymn “Exultet coelum laudibus,” (as a prior posted just posted!), another hymn for Vespers, Common for Apostles, rather than “Exsultet orbis gaudiis.”
p.s. The chant in printed form, with words and music, can be found on p. 270 of “Liber Hymnarius cum invitatoriis & aliquibus responsoriis,” Solesmis, MCMLXXXIII (ISBN 2-85274-076-1); Commoon for Apostles, ad II Vesperas. That is what they are singing.
An English translation, in rhyming couplets, from the program of the Edington Music Festival 2006:
Let the round world with songs rejoice;
let heaven return the joyful voice;
all mindful of the Apostles’ fame,
let heaven and earth their praise proclaim.
You servants who once bore the light
of gospel truth o’er heathen night,
still may your work that light impart,
to glad our eyes and cheer our heart.
O God, by whom to them was given
the key that shuts and opens heaven,
our chains unbind, our loss repair,
and grant us grace to enter there.
For at thy will they preached the word
which cured disease, which health conferred:
O may that healing power once more
our souls to grace and health restore.
That when your Son again shall come
and speak the world’s unerring doom,
he may with them pronounce us blessed,
and place us in your endless rest.
To you, O Father; Son, to you;
to you, blessed Spirit, glory be!
So was it ay for ages past,
so shall through endless ages last. Amen.
acardnal, nice of you to say “proper end to the evening”!
We are indeed called to give glory to God at all times, and to pray without ceasing.
AMDG!
That is song worthy of worshipping the One, True God. Wow.
Credits: The text as given by dmwallace will be the mediaeval form, retained in the monastic office when the secular Roman use adopted the revised hymns by Urban VIII, whence (I presume, without, I admit, getting up to check) the version originally posted.
The translation is more or less that by the early 19th century Anglican bishop Richard Mant. (Restoring the older form of second person singular where appropriate will make the first half of the last verse rhyme!)
Thank you very much, Father Z.!
Yes, thank you!
Can anyone help me with ‘reatu’ in the third stanza? ‘Reus’/’rea’ can mean ‘one bound’ (in some sense), but how literal are the translations “chain” or “chains”?
I’ve just learnt that in some folk practice, St. Nicholas comes to visit dragging a chain… (perhaps a symbolic connexion?)
I’ve also just had the delight of reading M.R. James’s detailed summary of St. Gregory of Tours account of St. Andrew in The Glory of the Martyrs, but cannot find an English translation online: does anyone know of any (or must I just hope some day to catch up with Raymond Van Dam’s 2004 Liverpool UP version)?