# Advent's own Matins hymn ("Verbum supérnum, pródiens"). Live-verified
# against both a plain Advent Sunday and a plain Advent feria
# (2026-12-10, a Thursday with no saint of its own) — byte-identical, so
# this season doesn't vary its Matins hymn by weekday the way the plain
# per-annum ferial cycle does. Self-contained with its own closing
# doxology stanza baked in (a fixed, unique ending, "Laus, honor, virtus,
# glória... In sæculórum sǽcula" — not the shared weekday doxology).
id: matins-hymn-advent
text:
  la: >-
    Verbum supérnum, pródiens

    A Patre olim éxiens,

    Qui natus orbi súbvenis,

    Cursu declívi témporis.


    Illúmina nunc péctora,

    Tuóque amóre cóncrema;

    Audíto ut præcónio

    Sint pulsa tandem lúbrica.


    Judéxque cum post áderis

    Rimári facta péctoris,

    Reddens vicem pro ábditis,

    Justísque regnum pro bonis.


    Non demum arctémur malis

    Pro qualitáte críminis;

    Sed cum beátis cómpotes

    Simus perénnes cælibes.


    Laus, honor, virtus, glória,

    Deo Patri, et Fílio,

    Sancto simul Paráclito,

    In sæculórum sǽcula. Amen.
  en: >-
    Celestial Word, to this our earth

    Sent down from God's eternal clime,

    To save mankind by mortal birth

    Into a world of change and time;


    Enlighten our hearts; vain hopes destroy;

    And in thy love's consuming fire

    Fill all the soul with heavenly joy,

    And melt the dross of low desire.


    So when the Judge of quick and dead

    Shall bid his awful summons come,

    To whelm the guilty soul with dread,

    And call the blessed to their home.


    Saved from the whirling, black abyss,

    Forevermore to us be given

    To share the feast of saintly bliss,

    And see the face of God in heaven.


    To God the Father and the Son

    Our songs with one accord we raise;

    And to the Holy Spirit, One

    With them, be ever equal praise. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified