DIVINUM OFFICIUM Hymn

Hymnus: Beata nobis gaudia

Pentecost - Lauds Hymn - Auth. St. Hilary

Proper text for Pentecost Sunday, the fiftieth day after Easter. This Class I feast celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and the birth of the Church. The Office texts invoke the Paraclete with ancient hymns like Veni Creator Spiritus, emphasizing the Spirit's seven gifts and the apostolic mission.

LATINE
Beata nobis gaudia / Anni reduxit orbita, / Cum Spiritus Paraclitus / Illapsus est Apostolis. // Ignis vibrante lumine / Linguae figuram detulit, / Verbis ut essent proflui, / Et caritate fervidi. // Linguis loquuntur omnium; / Turbae pavent Gentilium, / Musto madere deputant / Quos Spiritus repleverat. // Patrata sunt haec mystice, / Paschae peracto tempore, / Sacro dierum circulo, / Quo lege fit remissio. // Te nunc, Deus piissime, / Vultu precamur cernuo: / Illapsa nobis caelitus / Largire dona Spiritus. // Dudum sacrata pectora / Tua replesti gratia: / Dimitte nostra crimina, / Et da quieta tempora. // Deo Patri sit gloria, / Et Filio, qui a mortuis / Surrexit, ac Paraclito, / In saeculorum saecula. Amen.
ENGLISH
Again the slowly circling year / Brings round the blessed hour, / When on the Saints the Paraclete / Came down in grace and power. // In fashion of a fiery tongue / On each and all He came; / Their lips with eloquence He strung, / And fill'd their hearts with flame. // Straightway with divers tongues they speak, / Instinct with grace divine; / While wond'ring crowds the cause mistake, / And deem them drunk with wine. // These things were mystically wrought, / The Paschal time complete, / When Israel's Law remission brought / Of every legal debt. // God of all grace! to Thee we pray, / To Thee adoring bend; / Into our hearts this sacred day / Thy Spirit's fulness send. // Thou, who in ages past didst pour / Thy graces from above, / Thy grace in us where lost restore, / And stablish peace and love. // All glory to the Father be; / And to the Son who rose; / Glory, O Holy Ghost! to Thee, / While age on ages flows. Amen.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Pentecost - Lauds Hymn - Auth. St. Hilary
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
Hymn