# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers
# live query, 2026-06-24, the same clean date already used for lauds-capitulum-nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist.yml.
id: vespers-hymn-nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist
text:
  la: |
    Ut queant laxis resonáre fibris
    Mira gestórum fámuli tuórum,
    Solve pollúti lábii reátum,
    Sancte Joánnes.

    Núntius celso véniens Olýmpo,
    Te patri magnum fore nascitúrum,
    Nomen, et vitæ sériem geréndæ
    Ordine promit.

    Ille promíssi dúbius supérni,
    Pérdidit promptæ módulos loquélæ;
    Sed reformásti génitus perémptæ
    Organa vocis.

    Ventris obstrúso récubans cubíli
    Sénseras Regem thálamo manéntem;
    Hinc parens nati méritis utérque
    Abdita pandit.

    Glória Patri, genitǽque Proli,
    Et tibi, compar utriúsque semper,
    Spíritus alme, Deus unus omni
    Témpore sæcli.
    Amen.
  en: |
    O for thy spirit, holy John, to chasten
    Lips sin-polluted, fettered tongues to loosen;
    So by thy children might thy deeds of wonder
    Meetly be chanted.

    Lo! a swift herald, from the skies descending,
    Bears to thy father promise of thy greatness;
    How he shall name thee, what thy future story,
    Duly revealing.

    Scarcely believing message so transcendent,
    Him for season power of speech forsaketh,
    Till, at thy wondrous birth, again returneth
    Voice to the voiceless.

    Thou, in thy mother's womb all darkly cradled,
    Knewest thy Monarch, biding in his chamber,
    Whence the two parents, through their children's merits,
    Mysteries uttered.

    Praise to the Father, to the Son begotten,
    And to the Spirit, equal power possessing,
    One God whose glory, through the lapse of ages,
    Ever resoundeth.
    Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified