Translations

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During the pandemic of 2020 I returned to the Latin hymns of the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours, setting out to produce singable, accurate, rhymed translations that are faithful to the original Latin but also beautiful in themselves. You will find them here in both Latin and English. Permission for non-commercial use will be readily granted.

Through the Year
- Weeks 1 & 3
  - Sunday
    - I Vespers
      - Deus creator omnium / O God, The Maker of All Things
    - Lauds
      - Aeterne rerum conditor / Eternal Maker of the World
    - II Vespers
      - Lucis Creator optime / O Highest God, Who Made the Light
  - Monday
    - Lauds
      - Splendor paternae gloriae / Light of the Father’s Glory Great
    - Vespers
      - Immense caeli conditor / Boundless Creator, Wise and Great
  - Tuesday
  - Wednesday
    - Lauds
      - Nox et tenebrae et nubila / Confusion, Clouds, and Troubled Night
    - Vespers
      - Caeli Deus sanctissime / Most Holy God of Heaven high
  - Thursday
    - Office of Readings
      - Nox atra rerum contegit / As Earth and All Its Colors Bright
    - Lauds
      - Sol, ecce surgit igneus / Behold the Sun Arise Aflame
    - Vespers
      - Magnae Deus potentiae / O God of Mighty Pow’r, Who Made
  - Friday
    - Office of Readings
      - Auctor perennis gloriae / Eternal Source of Glory Bright
    - Lauds
      - Aeterna caeli gloria / Eternal Glory of the Sky
    - Vespers
      - Plasmator hominis, Deus / God, Who Unaided Fashioned Man
  - Saturday
    - Lauds
      - Aurora iam spargit polum / Dawn Scatters Light Across the Sky
- Weeks 2 & 4
  - Sunday
  - Monday
    - Lauds
      - Lucis largitor splendide / O Gracious Giver of the Light
    - Vespers
      - Luminis fons, lux et origo lucis / Source of All Splendor
  - Tuesday
    - Lauds
      - Aeterne lucis conditor / Eternal Maker of the Light
    - Vespers
      - Sator princepsque temporum / Creator, Lord of Time and Tide
  - Wednesday
    - Lauds
      - Fulgentis auctor aetheris / Creator of the Shining Sky
    - Vespers
      - Sol, ecce, lentus occidens / Behold the Slowly Setting Sun
  - Thursday
    - Lauds
      - Iam lucis orto sidere / Now That the Sun Is Risen High
    - Vespers
      - Deus, qui claro lumine / O God, Who Made the Day So Bright
  - Friday
    - Lauds
      - Deus, qui caeli lumen es / O God, the Lamp of Heaven High
    - Vespers
      - Horis peractis undecim / Eleven Hours Have Come and Gone
  - Saturday
    - Office of Readings
      - Deus de nullo veniens / O Uncreated God and Lord
    - Lauds
      - Diei luce reddita / The Light of Day Has Been Restored
Advent
- On Sundays and feria from December 17 to First Vespers of the Nativity
  - Vespers
    - Verbum salutis omnium / The Father Speaks a Word to Save
Lent
- Weekdays
  - Vespers
    - Iesu, quadragenariae / O Lord, Who Forty Days Abstained
Saints
- October
  - 02 - The Holy Guardian Angels
    - Vespers
      - Custodes hominum psallimus Angelos / We Sing of Guardians
  - 15 - St. Theresa of Avila
    - Vespers
      - Haec est dies qua candidae / This is the Day Theresa's Soul
Commons
- Doctors of the Church
  - Vespers
    - Aeterne sol, qui lumine / Eternal Sun, Who Bless and Fill
- One Virgin
  - Lauds
    - Aptata, virgo, lampade / Your Lamp Made Ready, Virgin Blessed