# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Matins
# `votive=C6` live query, 2026-08 -- "Vírginis Proles," the classic
# Common-of-Virgins Matins hymn. Same votive-office-view reasoning as
# this session's earlier Lauds/Vespers entries.
id: matins-hymn-common-of-a-virgin
text:
  la: >-
    Vírginis Proles, Opiféxque Matris,

    Virgo quem gessit, peperítque Virgo:

    Vírginis festum cánimus trophǽum

    Accipe votum.


    Hæc tua Virgo dúplici beáta

    Sorte, dum gestit frágilem domáre

    Córporis sexum, dómuit cruéntum

    Corpóre sæclum.


    Unde nec mortem, nec amíca mortis

    Sæva pœnárum génera pavéscens,

    Sánguine fuso méruit sacrátum

    Scándere cælum.


    Hujus obténtu, Deus alme, nostris

    Parce jam culpis, vítia remíttens,

    Quo tibi puri resonémus almum

    Péctoris hymnum.


    Glória Patri genitǽque Proli,

    Et tibi compar utriúsque semper

    Spíritus alme, Deus unus, omni

    Témpore sæcli. Amen.
  en: >-
    Son of a virgin, maker of thy mother,

    Thou, rod and blossom from a stem unstainèd,

    While we a Virgin's triumphs are rehearsing,

    Hear our petition!


    Lo, on thy handmaid fell a two-fold blessing,

    Who, in her body vanquishing the weakness,

    In that same body, grace from heaven obtaining,

    Bore the world witness.


    Death, nor the rending pains of death appalled her;

    Bondage and torment found her undefeated:

    So by the shedding of her blood attained she

    Heavenly guerdon.


    Fountain of mercy, hear the prayers she offers;

    Purge our offences, pardon our transgressions,

    So that hereafter we to thee may render

    Praise with thanksgiving.


    Thou, the All-Father, thou, the One-Begotten,

    Thou, Holy Spirit, Three in One co-equal,

    Glory be henceforth thine through all the ages,

    World without ending. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified