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- (Posted 2023-12-28) CPDL #78519:
- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2023-12-28). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 114 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition. A gregorian melody-variant of the hymn included for comparison.
General Information
Title: Adesto nunc Ecclesiae
Composer: Arnold von Bruck
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1542 in Sacrorum hymnorum liber primus (Georg Rhau), no. 24
Description: The third verse of the hymn Iesu quadragenariae used from third Sunday of Lent. From G. Rawh, Thomas Stolzer & ali: SACRORVM HYMNORVM LIBER PRIMUS ... 1542
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Original text and translations
 Latin text
Iesu quadragenáriae
dicátor abstinéntiae,
qui ob salútem méntium
præcéperas ieiúnium,
Tuo paradyso redderes
servata parsimonia
quos inde castrimargie
huc illecebris detulit
Adésto nunc Ecclésiae,
adésto pæniténtiae,
qua supplicámus cérnui,
peccáta nostra dílui.
Tu retroácta crímina
tua remítte grátia
et a futúris ádhibe
custódiam mitíssime,
Ut, expiáti ánnuis
compunctiónis áctibus,
tendámus ad paschália
digne colénda gáudia.
Presta pater per filium
presta per almum spiritum
cum his per euum triplici
unus deus cognomine.
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 English translation
Jesu, the Law and Pattern, whence
Our forty days of abstinence,
Who souls to save, that else had died,
This sacred fast hast ratified:
That so to Paradise once more,
Might abstinence preserv’d restore
Them that had lost its fields of light,
Through crafty wiles of appetite:
Be present now, be present here,
And mark Thy Church’s falling tear,
And own the grief that fills her eyes,
In mourning her iniquities.
Oh, by Thy Grace be pardon won,
For sins that former years have done:
And let Thy mercy guard us still
From crimes that threaten future ill.
That by the Fast we offer here,
Our annual sacrifice sincere,
To Paschal gladness at the end,
Set free from guilt, our souls may tend,
O Father, that we ask be done,
Through Jesus Christ, Thine Only Son,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
Shall live and reign eternally. Amen.
(Source: John Mason Neale, 1851)
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