Vox clara terris nos gravi
For Advent and the Vigil of the Nativity
Translation: A Thrilling Voice Rings Clear and High. Father Henry Ignatius D. Ryder, Birmingham Oratory, 1883.
Source: Breviarium Bellovacense (Beauvais Diocese, 1828), p. 144.
Vox clara terris nos gravi
Somno sepultos excitat:
Umbrae facessant, nox cadat,
Salus adest mortalibus.
Venere tandem tempora;
Rorate coeli desuper,
Nobis Deum nubes pluant,
Justumque terra germinet.
Verbu Dei, splendor Patris,
Desiderate gentibus,
Novi minister foederis,
Mundo jacenti nascere.
Nox atra terris incubat,
Incumbit horror criminum;
Prodi salubre mentibus
Parentis e sinu jubar.
Sit laus Patri, qui Filium
Promisit orbi victimam:
Sit qui venit, laus Filio:
Quo sit caro, laus Flamini.
Amen.
Also found in:
Breviarium sanctę Autissiodorensis ecclesię (Auxerre diocese, 1736), page 159
Breviarium Metropolitanae ac Primatialis Ecclesiae Senonensis (1726), page 165
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