# Sourced from Divinum Officium's Monastic block ("[HymnusM Adv Vespera]",
# Psalterium/Special/Major Special.txt) — full separate Monastic text
# ("Cónditor alme síderum", the older/more familiar form of this hymn),
# not a substitution against the Roman "Creátor alme síderum". English is
# the given translation of the *Roman* text ("Bright builder of the
# heavenly poles... Jesus, Redeemer of mankind"), which differs from the
# Monastic Latin in specific imagery (stanza 2 especially — "lest the
# world perish by the deceit of the demon" vs. "grieving that the world
# would perish by the ruin of death"), not just word order — kept anyway
# as the closest available English, `draft`. Not live-query-verified (see
# TODO.md).
id: vespers-hymn-advent
text:
  la: |
    Cónditor alme síderum,
    Ætérna lux credéntium,
    Christe, Redémptor ómnium,
    Exáudi preces súpplicum.

    Qui cóndolens intéritu
    Mortis períre sǽculum,
    Salvásti mundum lánguidum,
    Donans reis remédium,

    Vergénte mundi véspere,
    Uti sponsus de thálamo,
    Egréssus honestíssima
    Vírginis matris cláusula.

    Cujus forti poténtiæ
    Genu curvántur ómnia;
    Cæléstia, terréstria
    Nutu faténtur súbdita.

    Te deprecámur, hágie,
    Ventúre judex sǽculi,
    Consérva nos in témpore
    Hostis a telo pérfidi.

    Laus, honor, virtus, glória,
    Deo Patri, et Fílio,
    Sancto simul Paráclito,
    In sæculórum sǽcula.
    Amen.
  en: |
    Bright builder of the heavenly poles,
    Eternal light of faithful souls,
    Jesus, Redeemer of mankind,
    Our humble prayers vouchsafe to mind.

    Who, lest the fraud of hell's black king
    Should all men to destruction bring,
    Didst, by an act of generous love,
    The fainting world's physician prove.

    Who, that thou mightst our ransom pay
    And wash the stains of sin away,
    Wouldst from a Virgin's womb proceed
    And on the cross a victim bleed.

    Whose glorious power, whose saving name
    No sooner any voice can frame,
    But heaven and earth and hell agree
    To honour them with trembling knee.

    Thee, Christ, who at the latter day
    Shalt be our Judge, we humbly pray
    Such arms of heavenly grace to send
    As may thy Church from foes defend.

    Be glory given and honour done
    To God the Father and the Son
    And to the Holy Ghost on high,
    From age to age eternally.
    Amen.
status:
  la: draft
  en: draft