# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Matins
# live query, 2026-08-06 -- byte-identical to the Vespers hymn
# ("Quicúmque Christum quǽritis"). See lauds-capitulum-
# transfiguration.yml's header.
id: matins-hymn-transfiguration
text:
  la: >-
    Quicúmque Christum quǽritis,

    Oculos in altum tóllite:

    Illic licébit vísere

    Signum perénnis glóriæ.


    Illústre quiddam cérnimus,

    Quod nésciat finem pati,

    Sublíme, celsum, intérminum,

    Antíquius cælo et chao.


    Hic ille Rex est géntium

    Populíque Rex judáici,

    Promíssus Abrahæ patri

    Ejúsque in ævum sémini.


    Hunc, et prophétis téstibus

    Iisdémque signatóribus,

    Testátor et Pater jubet

    Audíre nos et crédere.


    Glória tibi, Dómine,

    Qui apparuísti hódie,

    Cum Patre, et Sancto Spíritu,

    In sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: >-
    All ye who would the Christ descry,

    Lift up your eyes to him on high:

    There mortal gaze hath strength to see

    The token of his majesty.


    A wondrous sign we there behold,

    That knows not death nor groweth old,

    Sublime, most high, that cannot fade,

    That was ere earth and heaven were made.


    Here is the King the gentiles fear,

    The Jews' most mighty King is here

    Promised to Abraham of yore,

    And to his seed forevermore.


    'Tis he the prophets' words foretold,

    And by their signs shown forth of old;

    The Father's witness hath ordained

    That we should hear with faith unfeigned.


    Jesu, to thee our praise we pay,

    To little ones revealed today,

    With Father and blest Spirit One

    Until the ages' course is done. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified