# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, 2026-06-24, clean year.
id: lauds-hymn-nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist
text:
  la: |
    O nimis felix, meritíque celsi, Nésciens labem nívei pudóris, Prǽpotens Martyr, nemorúmque cultor, Máxime Vatum.

    Serta ter denis álios corónant Aucta creméntis, duplicáta quosdam, Trina centéno cumuláta fructu Te sacer ornant.

    Nunc potens nostri méritis opímis Péctoris duros lápides repélle: Asperum planans iter, et refléxos Dírige calles.

    Ut pius mundi Sator et Redémptor Méntibus pulsa livióne puris Rite dignétur véniens sacrátos Pónere gressus.

    Láudibus cives célebrent supérni Te, Deus simplex paritérque trine, Súpplices et nos véniam precámur: Parce redémptis. Amen.
  en: |
    O more than blessèd, merit high attaining, Pure as the snow-drift, innocent of evil, Child of the desert, mightiest of martyrs, Greatest of prophets.

    Thirtyfold increase some with glory crowneth; Sixtyfold fruitage prize for others winneth; Hundredfold measure, thrice repeated, decks thee, Blest one, for guerdon.

    O may the virtue of thine intercession, All stony hardness from our hearts expelling, Smooth the rough places, and the crooked straighten Here in the desert.

    Thus may our gracious Maker and Redeemer, Seeking a station for his hallowed footsteps, Find, when he cometh, temples undefilèd, Meet to receive him.

    Now as the angels celebrate thy praises, Godhead essential, Trinity co-equal; Spare thy redeemed ones, as they bow before thee, Pardon imploring. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified