# Wednesday's own plain ferial Matins hymn (Psalterium/Special/Matutinum
# Special.txt's "Day3 Hymnus" — Day0=Sunday .. Day6=Saturday, live-checked
# 2026-09-04, 2026-09-02). Monastic 1617's own "Day3 HymnusM" swaps
# "culpis ómnibus" -> "tu criminibus" in stanza 2 (both mean "forgive our
# sins/crimes" — a stylistic variant, not a change of imagery, so the
# existing secular English translation is reused unchanged, same
# convention already used elsewhere in this store for minor M-track
# word-swaps).
#
# Closing doxology stanza intentionally omitted — shared across every
# weekday via matins-hymn-doxology-per-annum.yml (see hours/matins.ts).
id: matins-hymn-ferial-wednesday
text:
  la: >-
    Rerum Creátor óptime,

    Rectórque noster, áspice:

    Nos a quiéte nóxia

    Mersos sopóre líbera.


    Te, sancte Christe, póscimus,

    Ignósce tu criminibus:

    Ad confiténdum súrgimus,

    Morásque noctis rúmpimus.


    Mentes manúsque tóllimus,

    Prophéta sicut nóctibus

    Nobis geréndum prǽcipit,

    Paulúsque gestis cénsuit.


    Vides malum, quod fécimus:

    Occúlta nostra pándimus:

    Preces geméntes fúndimus,

    Dimítte quod peccávimus.
  en: >-
    Who madest all and dost control,

    Lord, with thy touch divine,

    Cast out the slumbers of the soul,

    The rest that is not thine.


    Look down, Eternal Holiness,

    And wash the sins away,

    Of those, who, rising to confess,

    Outstrip the lingering day.


    Our hearts and hands by night, O Lord,

    We lift them in our need;

    As holy Psalmists give the word,

    And holy Paul the deed.


    Each sin to thee of years gone by,

    Each hidden stain lies bare;

    We shrink not from thine awful eye,

    But pray that thou wouldst spare.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified