Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Sunday 16 August 2020

“Jam Lucis Orto Sidere”. Ambrosian Hymn Sung At The Canonical Hour Of Prime. Translated By Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, Who Was Canonised On 13 October 2019.



“Jam Lucis Orto Sidere”.
An Ambrosian Hymn that is still sung in the Morning at The Canonical Hour of Prime in certain Traditional Religious Orders. Sung by The Daughters of Mary, Mother of Our Saviour, in Round Top, New York. http://www.daughtersofmary.net/music.php
Translated by Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman,
Canonised on 13 October 2019.
Available on YouTube at



Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Artist: John Everett Millais (1829–1896).
Date: 1881.
Source/Photographer: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
(Wikimedia Commons)



“Jam Lucis Orto Sidere”.
Sung by: Giovanni Vianini.
Canto Ambrosiano, “Jam Lucis Orto Sidere”, Inno "Ad Primam" "Liturgia Horarum" studi vari di Giovanni Vianini, su spartito con notazione a rombo, scrittura originale del canto liturgico milanese.
Available on YouTube at


“Jam Lucis Orto Sidere”.
Ambrosian Hymn Sung At The Canonical Hour Of Prime.
Translated By Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman.

The star of morn to night succeeds;
 We therefore meekly Pray,
May God, in all our words and deeds,
 Keep us from harm this day.

May He in love restrain us still
From tones of strife and words of ill,
And wrap around and close our eyes
To Earth's absorbing vanities.

May wrath and thoughts that gender shame
 Ne’er in our breasts abide,
And painful abstinences tame
 Of wanton flesh the pride.

So when the weary day is o’er,
And night and stillness come once more,
Blameless and clean from spot of Earth
We may repeat with reverent mirth —

To God The Father Glory be,
 And to His Only Son,
And to The Spirit, One and Three,
 While endless ages run.

Amen.

(English lyrics from WIKISOURCE)



Jam lucis orto sidere,
Deum precémur supplices,
Ut in diurnis áctibus
Nos servet a nocéntibus.

Linguam refraénans témperet,
Ne litis horror insonet,
Visum fovéndo contegat,
Ne vanitátes háuriat.

Ut cum dies abscésserit,
Noctémque sors reduxerit,
Mundi per abstinéntiam
Ipsi canamus gloriam.

Deo Patri sit gloria,
Eiusque soli Filio,
Cum Spiritu Paraclito,
Nunc et per omne saéculum.

Amen.

(Latin lyrics from PRECES-LATINÆ)

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