Vespera
Te lucis ante terminum
Rerum creator poscimus
Ut solita clementia
Sis praesul ad custodium
Before the ending of the day
Creator of the world we pray
That with thy wonted favour thou
Would be our guard and keeper now
Keep me as the apple of an eye
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings
Keep me as the apple of an eye
Hide me, hide me, hide me
Hide me, hide me, hide me
The heaven soars with voices above
The skies resound the power of your love
The stars shine out your glorious light
Shine through our gloom and take us on high
Keep me as the apple of an eye
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings
Keep me as the apple of an eye
Hide me, hide me, hide me
Sancto Spiritu, rerum Creator |
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Lacrymosa
Lacrymosa
Dolorosa
Voca Me, Libera
Salva Me
You are the voice that calls in the silence
You are the light that shines in the dark
You hold me in any sorrow
See me through every shadow
Salva Me
You are the words of the song
You are the light
You are the music that plays
You are the voice You are the day
You are the words of the song in the sunrise
You are the music that plays at the dawn
You hold me if I were falling
Hear me if I am calling
Salva Me
You are the words of the song
You are the light
You are the music that plays
You are the voice
You are the day |
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Sacris
Solemnis
Sacris solemnis Juncta sint gaudia
Corda et voces et opera
Recedant vitera nova sint omnia
Sacris solemnis gaudia.
Te trina Deitas unaque
poscimus.
Sacris solemnis gaudia.
Corda, Voces opera
Lucem ad inhabitas |
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Attendite
Attende Domine
Et misere
Quia peccavimus tibi
Deep peace of the wave to you
Of the flowing water
Deep peace of the air to you
Ever breathing still bringing peace
Deep peace of the stars to you
Of the shining heavens
Deep peace of the earth to you
Ever sleeping still bringing peace
Exaudi Christe, Domine, miserere mei.
Ad te Rex summe, omnium redemptor, oculos nostros sublevamus
flentes:
exaudi, Christe, supplicantum preces.
Deep Peace |
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Gaudete
Gaudete
Gaudete Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine
Gaudete
Tempus adest gratiae, Hoc quod optabamus;
Carmina laetitiae Devote reddamus.
Ergo nostra contio, Psallat iam in lustro;
Benedicat Domino: Salus Regi nostro. |
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Silencium
Silence and sleep like fields of amaranth lie
Very old are the woods
And the buds that break out of the briers boughs
When March winds wake
So old with their beauty are
Oh no man knows through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose
Very old are the brooks
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold beneath the azure skies
Sing such a history of come and gone
We wake and whisper a while
But the day gone by
Very old are we men
Our dreams are tales told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales. |
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Semele
Where'er you walk
Cool gales shall fan the glade
Trees where you sit
shall crowd into a shade
Trees where you sit
shall crowd into a shade
Where'er you tread
the blushing flowers shall rise
and all things flourish
and all things flourish
Where e'er you turn your eyes |
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Luminosa
Beata sempiterna gloriosa
Star of heaven send your light on me
Star of day, shine through the dark
Beata nominum, beata lumina
Aurora Stella claro luna
Aurora nocte luminosa Beata nominum, beata sempiterna
Iluminosa, gloriosa
Ave Ave
Maris stella
Nocte silentium
Mater Dei
Semper coelestium
Maris Stella
Ave virgo clarissima
Gloriosa
Illumina |
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Stabat
Moriendo
Desolatum
Dum emissit dum spiritu
Per viam videte
Si est dolor similis
Per viam videte
O vos omnes populi
Dolentem gementem
Cujus animam
Dolentem gementem
Consumatum est
Stabat Mater dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrymosa
Vos omnes videte
universi populi
vos omnes videte
si est dolor similis |
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Veni
Sancte
Veni Sancte Spiritu
O Lux creator optime
You are everywhere, anywhere I go
You are everything, anything I know
Sancte Spiritu
I am everywhere, anywhere you go
emite coelitus lucis cordium,
Sancte Spiritu
For the wonder of who I am
In every moment of life
You are with me
Sancte, Sancte, veni Spiritu
Sancte veni, Sancte
If I take to the wings of the morning
or climb to the heavens
or fall to the darkness
or fly to the sunrise
you are there
O Lux Creator optime
You are everywhere, anywhere I go.
I am everything, anything you know.
Sancte Spiritu. Veni Sancte Spiritu
O Lux Creator optime.
[Dator munerum]
Emite coelitus lucis cordium
Sancte Spiritu Veni Sancte Spiritu
O Lux Creator Optime
For the wonder of who I am
In every moment of life and death
You are with me. |
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Sanctus
Sanctus
Benedictus, benedictus
qui venit in nomine benedictus
In nomine Domine
Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria
Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth
Pleni sunt coeli gloria. |
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Salva
Me
Domine Deus miserere mei
Carry me away from the dark I fear
when the storm is near
from the endless night
from my blinded sight
to a sky of light
Free me to fly away
Salva Me
Domine Deus miserere mei
Carry me away from the things that harm
on a sea of calm
from the endless night
from my blinded sight
to a sky of light
Free me to fly away
Salva Me
Domine Deus miserere mei
Salva |
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Agnus
Dei
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei
Dona nobis pacem
Agnus Dei,
Agnus Dei
Dona eis Requiem
In pacem aeterna pacem, in pacem. |
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Libera
De profundis clamavi ad te domine
Domine exaudi vocem meam de profundis
Libera me domine de morte
Are you the friend I can not see
Are you the one who cares for me
Its only you can set me free
Aeterna
Libera Libera
Libera Libera
Are you my hope of liberty
Are you the door are you the key
Its only you can set me free
Aeterna
Libera Libera
Libera Libera
De morte Libera
De morte libera me domine
Libera
Libera me domine de morte |
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Mysterium
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
And with fear and trembling stand
As the Light of light descendeth
From the realms of endless day,
That the powers of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away
Allelulia |
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Jubilate
Allelulia
Angels holy high and lowly
Tell the story of the glory
Jubilate deo
Jubilate deo
Allelulia
Heaven soaring stars adoring
Tell the story of the glory
Jubilate deo
Jubilate deo
Jubilate deo omnis terra
Servite domino in laetitiae
Jubilate deo omnis terra
Sempiter domino in laetitiae
Jubilate deo
Jubilate deo
Allelulia |
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Beata
Lux
Let dust in dust and silence lay
For there the heaven is but who am I
How shall I sing that majesty
Which angels so admire in ecstasy
O Lux beata trinita
Fulget crucis mysterium
Lucis creator optime
Aeterna Lux caelestia
I shall on earth be dark and cold
Black skies surrounding me with fears untold
But there's a sea without a shore
A sun without a sphere eternally
Beata-beata.........Lux |
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Dies
Irae
Rex tremendae majestatis salva me
Confutatis maledictis voca me
Kyrie eleison
Can you tell me if there'll be
One day when we'll wake and see
How to right the things gone by
Kyrie eleison
Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla
cum resurget creatura
judex est venturus
Kyrie eleison
Through the dark and fearful night
Help us bring a healing light
Reaching out to those who cry
Kyrie eleison
Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla
cum resurget creatura
judex est venturus
Rex tremendae majestatis salva me
Confutatis maledictis voca me
Finally we can see the way how to make a brighter day
You can turn the darkness round
Kyrie eleison
Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla
cum resurget creatura
judex est venturus Kyrie eleison |
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Te
Lucis
Te Lucis ante terminum
Rerum creator poscimus
Ut solita clementia
Sis praesul ad custodiam
From all ill dreams defend our eyes
From nightly fears and fantasies
Tread under foot our ghostly foe
That no pollution we may know
Praesta pater omnipotens
Per Iesum Christum dominum
Qui tecum in perpetuum
Regnat cum sancto spiritu
Praesta pater omnipotens
Per Iesum Christum dominum
Te Lucis |
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Sancta
Sancta Mater, dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrymosa
Sancta Maria
Sancta Maria
Cujus Animam gementum
Contristatum et dolentum
Sancta Maria
Sancta Maria
Moriendo, desolatum
Paradisi gloria |
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Angelis
Sanctus Dominus
Angeli, domini, psallite
Sancti angeli, cantate domino
Angeli, domini, archangeli
Sancti angeli, laudate dominum
Servite dominum de coelis
Laudate eum in excelsis
Cantate eum omnes angeli
Omnes angeli |
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Lux
Aeterna
In Paradisum de ducat angeli
perducant te Jerusalem
Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion,
et tibi in Jerusalem
Luceat eis et lux perpetua
Luceat eis domine
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
In Paradisum de ducat angeli
perducant te Jerusalem
Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion,
et tibi in Jerusalem
Luceat eis et lux perpetua
Luceat eis domine
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna Luceat eis domine
In aeterna quia pius est
Lux aeterna Luceat eis domine
In aeterna quia pius est
Luceat eis et lux petpetua
luceat eis domine
Lux aeterna Luceat eis domine
Lux aeterna Luceat eis domine
Lux aeterna Luceat eis domine
In aeterna |
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I
am the day
I am the day, soon to be born
I am the light before the morning
I am the night, that will be dawn
I am the end and the beginning
I am the alpha and omega
The night and day, the first and last
Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
In aeterna
I am the life, soon to begin
I am the new hope in the morning
I am the darkness, soon to be light
I am the rising and the falling |
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Stay
with me
You are everything I know
Which ever way I go
For ever stay with me
Venite angeli
Cantate domino
Laudate
You see me through when ever I'm afraid
However far away
For ever comfort me
You're on my side whichever way I choose
In everything I do
For ever stay with me |
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Voca
me
As secret as a dream you call
As silent as the night for all you cry
Lacrymosa
Lacrymosa dies illa
Dolorosa Domine
Voca
Voca Me
You whisper in my silent sleep
You answer to my call when lost I cry
Lacrymosa |
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A
song of enchantment
A song of enchantment I sang me there
In a green green wood by waters fair
Just as the words came up to me
I sang it under a wild wood tree
Widdershins turned I singing it low
Watching the wild birds come and go
No cloud in the deep dark blue to be seen
Under the thick thatch branches green
Twilight came, silence came
The planet of evening’s silver flame
By darkning paths I wandered through
Thickets trembling with drops of dew
But the music is lost and the words are gone
Of the song I sang as I sat along
Ages and ages have fallen on me
On the wood and the pool and the elder tree |
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Ave
verum
Ave verum corpus natum
De maria virgine
Attende Domini et Miserere
Quia peccavimus tibi
A silent mystery
The break of day
A moment shines across eternity
A silent harmony
The sounds of hope
A moment echoes through eternity |
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Do
not stand at my grave and weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight and ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep. |
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When
a knight
When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old
he was gentle and brave he was gallant and bold
with a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand
for God and for valour he rode through the land
No charger have I, and no sword by my side
yet still to adventure and battle I ride
though back into storyland giants have fled
and the knights are no more and the dragons are dead
Let faith be my shield and let joy be my steed
gainst the dragons of anger the ogres of greed
and let me set free with the sword of my youth
from the castle of darkness the power of the truth |
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A
new heaven
And I saw a new heaven
For the first earth, and the first earth
Are passed away
Illumina, perpetua
And there shall be no more death
No crying
For these are passed away |
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I
vow to thee
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
the love that asks no question, the love that stands
the test,
that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
the love that never falters, the love that pays the
price,
the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
most dear to them that love her, most great to them
that know;
we may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
and her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths
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Lament
Jerusalem convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum
Defecerunt prae lacrimis oculi mei
conturbata sunt visera mea
Lamentione
Magna est enim velut mars contritio tua
quiis mendebitur tui
Effesum est in terra ie cur meum
super contritione filiae populi mei
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Twilight
Twilight is stealing over hill and sea
Vesper bells pealing call us to thee
Lowly confessing trespass and shame
Bravely expressing faith in thy name
Low at thy mercy seat
Father thy children meet
Craving thy guidance sweet
Call to thee
Call us to thee o’er hill and sea
Call us to thee
Praising with one accord
Hearing thy holy word
Here let our service Lord
Call to thee |
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Be
still my soul
Be still my soul - the Lord is on thy side;
bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
leave to thy God to order and provide;
in every change - he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul - thy best thy heavenly Friend
through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
Be still my soul - when dearest friends depart,
and all is darkened in the vale of tears,
then shalt thou better know his love - his heart,
who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
Be still, my soul - the waves and winds still know
his voice who ruled them - while he dwelt below.
Be still my soul the hour is hastening on
when we shall be forever with the Lord,
when disappointment - grief and fear are gone,
sorrow forgot - love's purest joys restored,.
Be still my soul - when change and tears are past,
all safe and blessed - we shall meet at last. |
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Adoramus
Adoramus te rex Gloria
Cum gaudia infinita
Can you lift me away from the dark of this day
Give me courage and help me be free evermore
Can you guide me once more, give me strength to be
sure
Send me wisdom and help me be free evermore |
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