Verbum quod ante secula
For Circumcision
Words: Anonymous, Paris Breviary
Translation: The Word, With God The Father One
Source: J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #76, p. 121.
1. Verbum quod ante secula
Sinu paterno nasceris,
Recent homo sub tempore
E virginis podis sinu.
2. Jam dura discis perpeti
Quæ ferre p[ar sontes fuit:
Orbis saluti, fletibus
Præludis in cinus puer.
3. Fis pauper, indigentiâ
Nos et tuâ ditescimus:
Luges, tuis et lacrymis
Totum lavas mundi scelus.
4. Pannis opertus vilibus
Lates, recumbens in specu:
Homo, superbis; et Deum
Pani, specus, non dedecent.
5. A Patre missus, perditi
Qui factus es mundi salus,
Jesu, perire ne sinas
Tot quod emis laboribus.
6. Qui natus es de Virgine,
Jesu, tibi sit gloria,
Cum Patre, cumque Spiritu,
In sempiterna secula. Amen.
Sheet Music from J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #76, p. 121.
