That when this fleeting world is o'er,
And Christ, the judge, shall all survey;
We then may stand with hope before
His throne and tend his joyous way.
To God the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be endless glory, as before
Time was, and will be ever more.
DEUS TUORUM, ON COMMON OF MARTYRS.
Oh God, the lot, the crown, the gain
Of soldiers in thy service slain,
While thus we sing thy Martyr's praise
Make us forsake our sinful ways.
This saint esteeming worldly joys
As pleasing cheats, deceitful toys,
Shunning their false and fleeting lure,
Won heavenly joys that still endure.
He bravely ran his painful race
And looked his torments in the face,
And shedding forth his blood for thee
Now lives to all eternity.
To thee, most gracious Lord, we fly
Beseeching thee, with humble cry,
That all mav be absolved from sin
While for this Martyr triumphing.
To God the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be equal glory, equal praise
For an eternal length of days. Amen.
ISTE CONFESSOR, ON COM. OF CONFESSORS AND BISHOPS.
This great confessor, God's most worthy servant, Whom pious nations o'er the earth are praising,* This day rejoicing rose to heaven and conquer'd Blisses eternal.
If it be not the day of his death say from * This day rejoicing well deserved to conquer High praise and honour.
Him pious, prudent, humble, modest manners
Ever attended-ever marked for heaven:
So long as life was his-that life so truly
By him unvalu’d.
So great his merits, heaven oft suspended Nature's fixed courses: sickness and diseases, Weakness, and death itself, when he commanded, Vanquish'd obeyed him.
Therefore with choral hymns we now revere him,
Singing his merits, solemn songs upraising,
That by his prayers we may be truly succour'd
Now and for ever.
Praise be to Him, great honour, might and glory, Him who enthron'd in heaven sheds forth his splendour,
Ruling the world and all its chances swaying, Three, but One only.
JESU CORONA VIRGINUM, ON COM. OF
VIRGINS.
Jesus receive our suppliant cry,
Thou crown of pure virginity:
Son of a virgin who alone
Bore child nor lost her virgin zone.
Lilies bedeck thy radient way,
For choirs of virgins round thee stray;-
Thou glorious bridegroom who dost bless
Thy brides with endless happiness.
Which way soe'er thy courses tend
Virgins pursue and praise upsend.
Still speeding after thee, they raise
Sweet hymns of triumph, joy, and praise.
Humbly we beg thee that our sense
May feel thy gracious influence.
Each noxious wish do thou controul
Which poisons and defiles the soul.
To God the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be honour, glory, might, and praise,
For an eternal length of days.
FORTEM VIRILIS PECTORE, COM. OF HOLY WOMEN.
Let's praise this woman who, endued
With more than woman's fortitude,
Exalts her sanctity and name
In every place with glorious fame.
Such holy love inflam'd her heart
That she abhorred the noxious art
Of worldly love; and bravely trod
The narrow way that leads to God.
Spare fasts did every sense control,
With prayer
she sweetly fed her soul,
Thus rose she lightly to the sky,
Prepared to joy eternally.
Great source of courage, Christ our king!
From whom alone can greatness spring,
By her we pray thee: list our prayer;
Let us her worthier merits share.
To God the Father and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be endless glory; as before
Time was, is, shall be evermore.
JESU REDEMPTOR OMNIUM, FOR CHRISTMAS.
Jesus the ransomer of man,
Who, ere created light began,
Didst from the sovereign Father spring,
His might and glory equalling;
Thou brightness of the Father's rays,
The hope and end of all our days,
Oh kindly to the prayers attend
Which round the world to thee ascend.
Think, thou who didst all nature make,
That thou thyself erewhile didst take
The form of man from virgin's womb,
To avert from man his hopeless doom.
This day recalls the deed of grace.
Years fleet but still we love to trace
The time when from the Father's throne,
Thou cam'st to save a world alone.
The stars, the earth, the waters, all
'Neath heaven proclaims the festival!
All with new canticles repeat
Thy praise; and all their Saviour greet.
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