Lucis Creator Optime III

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Wed, 2010/01/13 - 3:01pm
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ID: 
1122
Arrangers / Editors: 
Unknown
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Divine Office
Vespers
Vespers Hymn
Proper Liturgical Time: 
The Full Year
Votive: 
F
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Sunday
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Monophonic
Language: 
Latin
Voices: 
Unison
Difficulty: 
Easy
Composition Date: 
Unknown
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Performance Time: 
2 min 45 sec
Lyrics: 

LUCIS Creator optime
lucem dierum proferens,
primordiis lucis novae,
mundi parans originem:

Qui mane iunctum vesperi
diem vocari praecipis:
tetrum chaos illabitur,
audi preces cum fletibus.

Ne mens gravata crimine,
vitae sit exsul munere,
dum nil perenne cogitat,
seseque culpis illigat.

Caeleste pulset ostium:
vitale tollat praemium:
vitemus omne noxium:
purgemus omne pessimum.

Praesta, Pater piissime,
Patrique compar Unice,
cum Spiritu Paraclito
regnans per omne saeculum. Amen.

Translated Lyrics: 

O BLEST Creator of the light,
Who mak'st the day with radiance bright,
and o'er the forming world didst call
the light from chaos first of all;

Whose wisdom joined in meet array
the morn and eve, and named them Day:
night comes with all its darkling fears;
regard Thy people's prayers and tears.

Lest, sunk in sin, and whelmed with strife,
they lose the gift of endless life;
while thinking but the thoughts of time,
they weave new chains of woe and crime.

But grant them grace that they may strain
the heavenly gate and prize to gain:
each harmful lure aside to cast,
and purge away each error past.

O Father, that we ask be done,
through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
doth live and reign eternally. Amen.