# The Sacred Heart's own Lauds hymn ("Cor, arca legem cóntinens") —
# distinct from Matins' own ("Auctor beáte sǽculi") and Vespers' own
# ("En, ut supérba críminum"). Live-verified against Divinum Officium
# (Divino Afflatu - 1954), Lauds live query, 2026-06-12 (the Sacred
# Heart itself) — see matins-hymn-sacred-heart.yml's own header on why
# this track. Self-contained — its own final stanza is the hymn's
# natural theological close, not a separate swappable doxology.
#
# This day's own Lauds genuinely has no responsory in the source at all
# (straight from chapter to hymn) — see lauds-capitulum-sacred-heart.yml
# and hours/lauds.ts's own resolveOffice, which omits the responsory
# part entirely rather than rendering an empty one.
id: lauds-hymn-sacred-heart
text:
  la: >-
    Cor, arca legem cóntinens

    Non servitútis véteris,

    Sed grátiæ, sed véniæ,

    Sed et misericórdiæ.


    Cor, sanctuárium novi

    Intemerátum fœ́deris,

    Templum vetústo sánctius,

    Velúmque scisso utílius.


    Te vulnerátum cáritas

    Ictu paténti vóluit,

    Amóris invisíbilis

    Ut venerémur vúlnera.


    Hoc sub amóris sýmbolo

    Passus cruénta et mýstica,

    Utrúmque sacrifícium

    Christus sacérdos óbtulit.


    Quis non amántem rédamet?

    Quis non redémptus díligat,

    Et Corde in isto séligat

    Ætérna tabernácula?


    Jesu, tibi sit glória,

    Qui Corde fundis grátiam,

    Cum Patre, et almo Spíritu,

    In sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: >-
    Jesus, behind thy temple's veil,

    Hid in an ark of gold,

    On stones engraven, lay the law

    thy finger wrote of old.


    But in thy body's temple new,

    thy life-blood's throbbing shrine,

    Held, upon fleshly tables graved,

    The law of love divine.


    And when that heart in death was stilled,

    Each temple's veil was riven:

    And lo, within thy love's red shrine,

    To us to look was given.


    There make us gaze and see the love

    Which drew thee, for our sake,

    O great high-priest, thyself to God

    A sacrifice to make.


    Thou, Saviour, cause that every soul

    Which thou hast loved so well,

    May will within thine open heart

    In life and death to dwell.


    Grant it, O Father, only Son,

    And Spirit, God of grace,

    To whom all worship shall be done,

    In every time and place. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified