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- Tarik O'Regan
Beatus auctor sæculi (Blest author of this earthly frame) from Sequence for St Wulfstan (2003)
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Commissioned by Tim Brown and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Programme Note
Latin text sourced from MS 391, p. 225: Cambridge, Copus Christi College (the Portiforium of St Wulfstan). Text: Caelius Sedulius (?) (c. 450 A.D.) Translation: J. M. Neale (1818 - 1886)
For THE NATIVITY, CHRISTMAS or MARIAN FEASTS
Beatus auctor saeculi
servile corpus induit,
ut carne carnem liberans
non perderet quod condidit.
Clausae parentis viscera
caelestis intrat gratia;
venter puellae baiulat
secreta quae non noverat.
Amen.
Blest Author of this earthly frame,
to take a servant's form he came,
that liberating flesh by flesh,
whom he had made might live afresh.
In that chaste parent's holy womb,
celestial grace hath found its home;
and she, as earthly bride unknown,
yet call that Offspring blest her own.
Amen.
For THE NATIVITY, CHRISTMAS or MARIAN FEASTS
Beatus auctor saeculi
servile corpus induit,
ut carne carnem liberans
non perderet quod condidit.
Clausae parentis viscera
caelestis intrat gratia;
venter puellae baiulat
secreta quae non noverat.
Amen.
Blest Author of this earthly frame,
to take a servant's form he came,
that liberating flesh by flesh,
whom he had made might live afresh.
In that chaste parent's holy womb,
celestial grace hath found its home;
and she, as earthly bride unknown,
yet call that Offspring blest her own.
Amen.
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