# Sourced from Divinum Officium's Monastic block ("[HymnusM Day0 Vespera]",
# Psalterium/Special/Major Special.txt). The Monastic Latin is stored there
# as two word-order/wording substitutions against the base "[Hymnus Day0
# Vespera]" text ("Illábitur tetrum chaos" -> "Tetrum chaos illábitur";
# "Cæléste pulset óstium:" -> "Cælórum pulset íntimum,"), applied by hand
# here rather than left as a diff — not live-query-verified (see TODO.md).
# English has no separate Monastic variant in the source (the wording
# differences don't affect translation), so it's the same text either way.
# The closing doxology stanza is split out into
# vespers-hymn-sunday-doxology-per-annum.yml (see hours/vespers.ts) — the source
# carries a real "*" seasonal-substitution marker there (live-checked
# 2026-09-03, Psalterium/Special/Major Special.txt), unlike every other
# Lauds/Vespers weekday hymn's fixed ending.
id: vespers-hymn-sunday
text:
  la: |
    Lucis Creátor óptime,
    Lucem diérum próferens,
    Primórdiis lucis novæ,
    Mundi parans oríginem:

    Qui mane junctum vésperi
    Diem vocári prǽcipis:
    Tetrum chaos illábitur,
    Audi preces cum flétibus.

    Ne mens graváta crímine,
    Vitæ sit exsul múnere,
    Dum nil perénne cógitat,
    Seséque culpis ílligat.

    Cælórum pulset íntimum,
    Vitále tollat prǽmium:
    Vitémus omne nóxium:
    Purgémus omne péssimum.
  en: |
    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.
status:
  la: draft
  en: draft