VENI, CREATOR.

[Proper before any undertaking.]

Veni, Creator Spiritus,

Mentes tuorum visita,

Imple superna gratia,

Quæ tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,
Altissimi donum Dei,
Fons vivus, ignis, charitas,
Et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,
Digitus Paternæ dexteræ,
Tu rite promissum Patris,
Sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus,
Infunde amorem cordibus,
Infirma nostri corporis

Virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius,
Pacemque dones protinus;
Ductore sic te prævio
Vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem,

Noscamus atque Filium,
Teque utriusque Spiritum
Credamus omni tempore.

VENI, CREATOR.

Come, O Creator Spirit blest!

And in our souls take up Thy rest;
Come, with Thy grace and heavenly aid,
To fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
Great Paraclete! to Thee we cry,
O highest gift of God most high!
O fount of life! O fire of love!
And sweet anointing from above!

Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts art known;
The finger of God's hand we own,
The promise of the Father Thou!
Who dost the tongue with power endow.
Kindle our senses from above,

And make our hearts o'erflow with love;
With patience firm, and virtue high,
The weakness of our flesh supply.

Far from us drive the foe we dread,
And grant us Thy true peace instead;
So shall we not, with Thee for guide,
Turn from the path of life aside.
Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow,
The Father and the Son to know,
And Thee through endless times confess'd
Of both th' Eternal Spirit blest.

Deo Patri sit gloria, Et Filio, qui a mortuis Surrexit, ac Paraclito, In sæculorum sæcula.

Amen.

AVE MARIS STELLA.

AVE maris stella, Dei Mater alma, Atque semper Virgo,

Felix cœli porta.

Sumens illud Ave

Gabrielis ore,

Funda nos in pace,

Mutans Evæ nomen.

Solve vincla reis, Profer lumen cæcis, Mala nostra pelle,

Bona cuncta posce.

Monstra te esse matrem,

Sumat per te preces,

Qui pro nobis natus,

Tulit esse tuus.

All glory while the ages run

Be to the Father, and the Son

Who rose from death; the same to Thee,

O Holy Ghost eternally.

100 days'; 300 on Whit Sunday.

Amen.

AVE MARIS STELLA.

HAIL, thou star of ocean!
Portal of the sky!

Ever Virgin Mother

Of the Lord most high!

Oh! by Gabriel's Ave,
Utter'd long ago,
Eva's name reversing,
Grant us peace below.

Break the captive's fetters;
Light on blindness pour ;

All our ills expelling,
Every bliss implore.

Show thyself a mother;
Offer Him our sighs,
Who for us incarnate

Did not thee despise.

Virgo singularis

Inter omnes mitis
Nos culpis solutos,
Mites fac et castos.

Vitam præsta puram,
Iter para tutum,
Ut videntes Jesum,
Semper collætemur.

Sit laus Deo Patri,
Summo Christo decus,

Spiritui Sancto,

Tribus honor unus. Amen.

TE DEUM.

Te Deum laudamus * te Dominum confitemur.

Te æternum Patrem * omnis terra veneratur.

Tibi omnes angeli * tibi cœli et universæ potestates:

Tibi cherubim et seraphim* incessabili voce proclamant:

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, * Dominus Deus Sabaoth.