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July 16, 2014

Nox Atra Rerum Contegit

Dark Night has Drawn Her Curtains Round

Nox Atra Rerum Contegit is attributed to St. Gregory the Great (540-604).  It is sung at Thursday Matins in the Roman Breviary.

NOX ATRA RERUM CONTEGIT by St. Gregory the Great
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1. Nox atra rerum contegit
terrae colores omnium:
nos confitentes poscimus
te, iuste iudex cordium, 

2. Ut auferas piacula
sordeque mentis abluas,
donesque, Christe, gratiam
ut arceantur crimina.

3. Mens, ecce, torpet impia,
quam culpa mordet noxia;
obscura gestit tollere
et te, Redemptor, quaerere. 

4. Repelle tu caliginem
intrinsecus quam maxime,
ut in beato gaudeat
se collocari lumine.

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

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