The Sarabite: Towards an Aesthetic Christianity

There is a continuous attraction, beginning with God, going to the world, and ending at last with God, an attraction which returns to the same place where it began as though in a kind of circle. -Marsilio Ficino

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

De Ecclesia (Iterum)


Caelestis urbs Jerusalem,
Beata pacis visio,
Quae celsa de viventibus
Saxis ad astra tolleris,
Sponsaeque ritu cingeris
Mille Angelorum millibus.

O sorte nupta prospera,
Dotata Patris gloria,
Respersa Sponsi gratia,
Regina formosissima,
Christo iugata Principi,
Caeli corusca civitas.

Hic margaritis emicant,
Patentque cunctis ostia:
Virtute namque praevia
Mortalis illuc ducitur,
Amore Christi percitus
Tormenta quisquis sustinet.

Scalpri salubris ictibus,
Et tunsione plurima,
Fabri polita malleo
Hanc saxa molem construunt,
Aptisque iuncta nexibus
Locantur in fastigio.

Decus Parenti debitum
Sit usquequaque Altissimo.
Natoque Patris unico,
Et inclyto Paraclito,
Cui laus, potestas, gloria
Aeterna sit per saecula.
Amen.

3 Comments:

At 8:43 PM, Blogger Arturo Vasquez said...

This is the greatest eccelsiological treatise of the Western Church. It is sung at the consecration of a church, and at the Vespers in commemoration of the consecration of a church.

 
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