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Consors Paterni Luminis was once attributed to St. Ambrose (c.340-397), but modern scholars are today unsure of it's origins. It is sung at Tuesday Matins in the Roman Breviary.
CONSORS PATERNI LUMINIS by St. Ambrose
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1. Consors paterni luminis,
lux ipse lucis et dies,
noctem canendo rumpimus:
assiste postulantibus.
2. Aufer tenebras mentium,
fuga catervas daemonum,
expelle somnolentiam
ne pigritantes obruat.
3. Sic, Christe, nobis omnibus
indulgeas credentibus
ut prosit exorantibus
quod praecinentes psallimus.
4. Sit, Christe, rex piisime,
tibi Patrique gloria
cum Spiritu Paraclito,
in sempiterna saecula. Amen.
From Connelly, fwiw:
ReplyDelete"Author unknown. It is not in the Ambrosian tradition or style, and Biraghi [Blessed Luigi, Inni sinceri e carmi di sant'Ambrogio, 1862], the authority on the hymns of St Ambrose, excludes it from the list of genuine hymns of the saint. Daniel [Thesaurus Hymnologicus, Leipzig 1855-6] thinks it to be of the seventh or eighth century."
A paraphrase of this hymn was set by Gabriel Faure as the 'Cantique de Jean Racine'.
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