Lucis Creator

Winner - University of Notre Dame Basilica Schola Liturgy Alive Composition Contest - 2022

SATB a cappella

Duration 4:00

Text attributed to Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604)

Text

Lucis, Lucis Creator optime
lucem dierum proferens,
primordiis lucis novae,
mundi parans originem:

Caeleste, ste pulset, set ostium:
vitale tollat praemium:
vitemus omne noxium:
purgemus omne pessimum.

Praesta, Pater piissime,
Patrique compar Unice,
cum Spiritu Paraclito
regnans per omne saeculum.
Amen.

Translation

O blest Creator of the light,
Who mak'st the day with radiance bright,
and o'er the forming world didst call
the light from chaos first of all;

But grant them grace that they may strain
the heavenly gate and prize to gain:
each harmful lure aside to cast,
and purge a-way each error past.

O Father, that we ask be done,
through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son;
Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
doth live and reign eternally.
Amen.