Advent Hymn - Alme Siderum

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Creator Of The Stars Of Night "Alme Siderum" (Traditional Advent Hymn)
Advent Hymn from Ambrosian, 6th or 7th Century

Latin

Conditor alme siderum, aeterna lux credentium,
Christe, redemptor omnium, exaudi preces supplicum.

Qui condolens interitu mortis perire saeculum,
salvasti mundum languidum, donans reis remedium.

Vergente mundi vespere, uti sponsus de thalamo,
egressus honestissima Virginis matris clausula.

Cuius forti potentiae genu curvantur omnia;
caelestia, terrestria nutu fatentur subdita.

Te, Sancte, fide quaesumus, venture iudex saeculi,
conserva nos in tempore hostis a telo perfidi.

Sit, Christe, rex piissime,
tibi Patrique gloria
cum Spiritu Paraclito,
in sempiterna saecula. Amen.


English

Creator of the stars of night, Thy people’s everlasting Light;
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all, And hear thy servants when they call.

Thou, grieving that the ancient curse
Should doom to death an universe,
Hast found the med’cine, full of grace,
To save and heal a ruin’d race.

Thou cam’st, the Bridegroom of the Bride,
As drew the world to evening-tide;
Proceeding from a Virgin shrine,
The spotless Victim all divine.

At whose dread Name, majestic now,
All knees must bend, all hearts must bow
And things celestial thee shall own,
And things terrestrial, Lord alone.

O thou, whose coming is with dread
To judge and doom the quick and dead,
Preserve us, while we dwell below,
From ev’ry insult of the foe.

To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Laud, honour, might, and glory be
From age to age eternally. Amen.