Epistolarium: Dominica in Quinquagesima

Submitted by Nicholas.Trandem on Mon, 2010/01/25 - 1:57pm
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ID: 
1140
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Epistle
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Dominica in Quinquagesima
Votive: 
F
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Composition Type: 
Epistola
Texture: 
Monophonic
Language: 
Latin
Voices: 
Unison
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Lyrics: 

Léctio Epístolae beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Corínthios.

1 Cor. 13, 1-13

FRATRES: Si linguis hóminum loquar, et Angelórum, caritátem autem non hábeam, factus sum velut aes sonans, aut cýmbalum tínniens. Et si habúero prophetíam, et nóverim mystéria ómnia, et omnem sciéntiam: et si habúero omnem fidem, ita ut montes tránsferam, caritátem autem non habúero, nihil sum. Et si distribúero in cibos páuperum omnes facultátes meas, et si tradídero corpus meum, ita ut árdeam, caritátem autem non habúero, nihil mihi prodest. Cáritas pátiens est, benígna est: Cáritas non aemulátur, non agit pérperam, non inflátur, non est ambitiósa, non quaerit quae sua sunt, non irritátur, non cógitat malum, non gaudet super iniquitáte, congáudet autem veritáti: ómnia suffert, ómnia credit, ómnia sperat, ómnia sústinet. Cáritas numquam éxcidit: sive prophetíae evacuabúntur, sive linguae cessábunt, sive sciéntia destruétur. Ex parte enim cognóscimus, et ex parte prophetámus. Cum autem vénerit quod perféctum est, evacuábitur quod ex parte est. Cum essem párvulus, loquébar ut párvulus, sapiébam ut párvulus, cogitábam ut párvulus. Quando autem factus sum vir, evacuávi quae erant párvuli. Vidémus nunc per spéculum in aenígmate: tunc autem fácie ad fáciem. Nunc cognósco ex parte: tunc autem cognóscam sicut et cógnitus sum. Nunc autem manent fides, spes, cáritas, tria haec: major autem horum est cáritas.

Translated Lyrics: 

A Reading from the letter of the Blessed Apostle Paul to the Corinthians.

1 Cor. 13, 1-13

BRETHREN: If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.