Veni Sancte Spiritus

Veni Sancte Spiritus
General
Use:	sequence
Liturgical calendar :	Dominica Pentecostes
Text origin:	Stephen Langton (around 1150 to 1228)
Mode :	First note
Choral book :	Graduale Romanum (1908), p. 249

The Pentecostal sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus is a Latin measurement vocals , with the community the Holy Spirit asks for assistance. It recalls the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost ( Acts 2 EU ) and the gifts of the Holy Spirit .

text

Latin	Literal translation	Heinrich Bone 1847
Veni, Sancte Spiritus, Et emitte caelitus Lucis tuae radium. Veni, pater pauperum, Veni, dator munerum, Veni, lumen cordium. Consolator optime, Dulcis hospes animae, Dulce refrigerium. In labore requies, In aestu temperies, In fletu solatium. O lux beatissima, Reple cordis intima Tuorum fidelium. Sine tuo numine Nihil est in homine, Nihil est innoxium. Lava quod est sordidum, Riga quod est aridum, Sana quod est saucium. Flecte quod est rigidum, Fove quod est frigidum, Rege quod est devium. Da tuis fidelibus In te confidentibus Sacrum septenarium. Da virtutis meritum, Da salutis exitum, Da perenne gaudium.	Come, Holy Spirit, And send your ray of light from heaven . Come, father of the poor, come, giver of gifts, come, light of hearts. Best comforter, sweet guest of the soul, sweet refreshment. In the effort you are calm, in the heat moderation, in crying comfort. O blessed light, fill the heart of your believers. Without your work there is nothing in people, nothing is innocent. Wash what is dirty, water what is dry, heal what is wounded! Bend what is rigid, warm what is cold, direct what is off the path! Give your believers, who trust in you, the sevenfold holy gift! Give virtue a reward, give salvation an outcome (success), give constant joy!	Come, O Spirit of Holiness! From heaven's glory send out your ray of light! Father of all the poor you, all hearts light and rest, come with your gifts number! Comforter in abandonment, refreshment full of loveliness, come, you sweet soul mate! In tiredness give rest, In the embers a breath of cooling, Comfort him who weeps bleakly. O light of bliss, prepare our hearts for you, penetrate our souls! Without your living Wehn, nothing in people can exist, nothing can be without flaws and flaws. Wash what is stained, heal what is wounded, drink what is dry. Bend what is hardened, warmth what is cold, guide what goes astray. Holy Spirit, we ask you, graciously give us all your gifts of seven. Give us the wages of virtue, let us stand by your throne, rejoice in the heavenly hall.

Singing the sequence after the call to the gospel closes with amen, hallelujah.

History and analysis

The text of the sequence is ascribed to Stephen Langton (around 1150 to 1228). Veni Sancte Spiritus is one of the four sequences that were retained after the liturgical reform of Pius V after the Tridentine Council (1545 to 1563).

The Pentecost sequence has its obligatory liturgical place in holy mass on Pentecost Sunday after the second reading , before the call to the Gospel . The sequence can be sung again in Holy Mass on Whit Monday in countries where Whit Monday is an obligatory holiday . The Praise to God contains the Latin text (number 343) and a counterfacture with a translation by Maria Luise Thurmair and Markus Jenny (number 344).

melody

Further settings

The text was set to music by composers from different eras. Below is a selection:

Jacques Berthier : Veni lumen ( NGL ).
William Byrd : Veni Sancte Spiritus (1607).
Leoš Janáček : Veni Sancte Spiritus (1900).
Morten Lauridsen : Veni Sancte Spiritus as part of the non-liturgical requiem Lux aeterna (1997).
Uģis Prauliņš : “O Lux Beatissima” (Veni, Sancte Spiritus), motets for choir a cappella.
Heinrich Schütz : Veni Sancte Spiritus SWV 328 (1639).
Ludger Stühlmeyer : Come down, o Holy Spirit (NGL).
Adrian Willaert : Veni Sancte Spiritus 4-stg. (1518) and 6-part (1556)

The Veni Sancte Spiritus KV 47 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1768) is not a setting of the Whitsun sequence, but a liturgical chant with the same text incipit : Veni Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium et tui amoris in eis ignem accende “Come, holy spirit, fulfill them Hearts of your believers and kindle in them the fire of your love ”. It was used as an older version of the antiphon for the Magnificat in Vespers on Pentecost, as a verse on the Alleluia after the Epistle on Pentecost and as an antiphon before the invocation of the Holy Spirit on various occasions.

Web links

Commons : Pentecost sequence - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Franz Karl Praßl : Sequence . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000.
↑ Markus Bautsch: On Contrafactures of Gregorian Repertoire - Veni Sancte Spiritus , accessed on December 8, 2014
↑ Annual press conference 2014/2015 - Christmas concert in the Berlin Cathedral, page 12, Rundfunkchor Berlin ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Liber Usualis , Paris 1954, p. 880.1837.

[LThK-1] A ^b Franz Karl Praßl : Sequence . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000.

[2] Markus Bautsch: On Contrafactures of Gregorian Repertoire - Veni Sancte Spiritus , accessed on December 8, 2014

[3] Annual press conference 2014/2015 - Christmas concert in the Berlin Cathedral, page 12, Rundfunkchor Berlin ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Liber Usualis , Paris 1954, p. 880.1837.