Creator Alme Siderum

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Sat, 2010/11/27 - 2:30pm
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ID: 
517
Composition Date: 
7th Century
Arrangers / Editors: 
Unknown
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Divine Office
Vespers
Vespers Hymn
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Adventtide
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Sunday
Votive: 
F
Performance Time: 
2 min 30 sec
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Monophonic
Voices: 
Unison
Language: 
Latin
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Gregorian Tone: 
4.
Lyrics: 

CREATOR alme siderum, aeterna lux credentium, Iesu, Redemptor omnium, intende votis supplicum.

Qui daemonis ne fraudibus periret orbis, impetu amoris actus, languidi, mundi medela factus es,    

Commune qui mundi nefas ut expiares, ad crucem e Virginis sacrario intacta prodis victima.

Cuius potestas gloriae, Nomenque cum primum sonat, et caelites et inferi tremente curvantur genu.

Te, deprecamur ultimae magnum diei Iudicem, armis supernae gratiae defende nos ab hostibus.

Virtus, honor, laus, gloria Deo Patri cum Filio, Sancto simul Paraclito, in saeculorum saecula.

Translated Lyrics: 

BRIGHT builder of the heavenly poles, eternal light of faithful souls, Jesus, Redeemer of mankind, our humble prayers vouchsafe to mind:

Who, lest the fraud of hell's black king should all men to destruction bring, didst, by an act of generous love, the fainting world's physician prove.

Thou, that Thou mightst our ransom pay and wash the stains of sin away, didst from a Virgin's womb proceed and on the Cross a Victim bleed.

Thy glorious power, Thy saving Name no sooner any voice can frame, but heaven and earth and hell agree to honor them with trembling knee.

Thee, Christ, who at the latter day shalt be our Judge, we humbly pray such arms of heavenly grace to send as may Thy Church from foes defend.

Be glory given and honor done to God the Father and the Son and to the Holy Ghost on high, from age to age eternally.