{"id":108469,"date":"2024-04-16T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=108469"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:15:43","slug":"aurora-lucis-rutilat-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/aurora-lucis-rutilat-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Lucis Rutilat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Y<\/span>esterday, one of the groups I follow on Facebook asked the question, “what’s your favourite hymn for the Easter Season?” I have several. One, as I mentioned the other day<\/a>, is \u201cO Filii et Fili\u00e6\u201d (O Sons and Daughters<\/a>). This is another; it’s the hymn for Easter Lauds in my Benedictine Breviary<\/a>. While the original Latin<\/a> is beautiful, the English translation is sheer poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light\u2019s glittering morn bedecks the sky;
Heaven thunders forth its victor cry;
The glad earth shouts its triumph high,
And groaning hell makes wild reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While He, the King of glorious might,
Treads down death’s strength in death’s despite,
And, trampling hell by victor’s right,
Brings forth His sleeping Saints to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast barred beneath the stone of late
In watch and ward where soldiers wait,
Now shining in triumphant state,
He rises victor from death’s gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hell’s pains are loosed and tears are fled,
Captivity is captive led;
The angel crowned with light hath said,
“The Lord is risen from the dead!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pray Thee, King with glory decked,
In this our Paschal joy, protect
From all that death would fain effect
Thy ransomed flock, Thine own elect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Thee Who, dead, again dost live,
All glory, Lord, Thy people give;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V.<\/font> In Thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia.
R.<\/font> Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Saint Mary Magdalene announcing the Resurrection to the Apostles (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:9, Luke 24, John 20:1) (St. Alban’s Psalter circa 1123)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The first part of the translation is from a version done in 1852 by J. M. Neale<\/a>, but then in the fifth verse it veers off into something I suspect was done by the editors of the breviary itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Latin original seems to date from the 8th century, though in the 17th century Pope Urban VIII<\/a> changed the lyrics to reflect his preference for more classical Latin poetic forms. It was restored by Pope Saint Pius X in 1908<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the Latin for your enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n