Hymns from the Paris Breviary after the Epiphany Octave - Lauds

St Joseph

This week’s hymn is a little different to the nativity-themed ones we have seen so far as it focuses on Joseph and Jesus’ work with him.

Divine, crescebas, Puer, Crescendo discebas mori:

Hæc destinata tunc erant Mortis tuæ præludia.

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Satus Deo, volens tegi, Elegit obscurum Patrem

Qui fecit æternas domos, Domo latet sub paupere.

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Cœlum manus quæ sustinent, Fabrile contrectant opus;

Supremus astrorum Parens Fit ipse vilis artifex.

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Tremenda cujus præpetes Mandata portant Spiritus,

Cui pronus orbis subditur, Se sponte fabro subjicit.

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Qui natus es de Virgine, Jesu, tibi sit gloria

Cum Patre, cumque Spiritu, In sempiterna secula.

Statue of St Joseph at St Wilfrid’s Oratory, York