The video runs through the hymn twice, first with the Latin text and then with the metrical English translation. Here are both for you to follow, courtesy of Preces Latinae.
| Te Ioseph, celebrent agmina caelitum, te cuncti resonent Christiadum chori, qui, clarus meritis, iunctus es inclitae, casto foedere Virgini. | Joseph! to thee by hosts on high and choirs of Christians, laud be paid! saintly of life, by purest tie joined unto her, the glorious Maid. |
| Almo cum tumidam germine coniugem admirans dubio tangeris anxius, afflatu superi Flaminis, Angelus conceptum puerum docet. | When thou didst doubt thy wife's repute, and mark her great with motherhood, the angel taught thee that her fruit came from the Holy Ghost of God. |
| Tu natum Dominum stringis, ad exteras Aegypti profugum tu sequeris plagas; amissum Solymis quaeris et invenis, miscens gaudia fletibus. | To clasp the Son, the Lord, was thine, to share His flight to Egypt's shore, with tears, to seek in Salem's shrine Him lost, -with joy, to find once more. |
| Electos reliquos mors pia consecrat1 palmamque emeritos gloria suscipit; tu vivens, Superis par, frueris Deo, mira sorte beatior. | Death brings to other Saints their rest; through toil they win the victor's place; thou happier, like the Angels blest, alive, hast seen God face to face. |
| Nobis, summa Trias, parce precantibus; da Ioseph meritis sidera scandere, ut tandem liceat nos tibi perpetim gratum promere canticum. Amen. | Spare us, O Trinity most High! grant that, with Joseph, we may gain Thy starry realm, and ceaselessly there raise to Thee our thankful strain. Amen. |
Joseph is the second Christian name that my parents chose for my baptism and therefore I have a special devotion to the "upright and just man". I asked people this morning at Mass to pray especially for men and for fathers of families that St Joseph would intercede and assist us to acquire and develop the manly virtues which he lived.
On a mundane note, this was also a test to see whether the old table html tags which veteran webmasters know and love will work in Blogger. Looking at the result, it seems OK but I haven't done a comprehensive browser test so do put in a comment if things go haywire.
6 comments:
What a beautiful painting! Who is it by? My wild guess would be Murillo.
Dear Father Finigan
Thank you for this beautiful, and timely post i.e.. I asked people this morning at Mass to pray especially for men and for fathers of families that St Joseph would intercede and assist us to acquire and develop the manly virtues which he lived.
I will forward it to my youngest son Joseph John.
Last Saturday my MP John Austin informed me at Erith Library that Tony Dawson is no longer the Bexley Borough Police Commander. John Austin recently wrote to Jack Straw supporting my complaint to the IPCC about the complete lack of response from Bexley Borough Police Commander Tony Dawson's office to my FOOTBALL AGAINST RACISM IN EUROPE 1991-2010 case development work. Yesterday John Austin MP held his last Advice Surgery at Erith Library before retirement, and to mark the occasion he presented the librarians with a box of fine English Chocolates made specially for the House of Lords. Today I have sent an e-mail to support the Dagenham & Redbridge FC 'Daggers Sign Up Against Racism Day' which forms the SOS backdrop for today's game against Macclesfield Town FC.
It is now more than 5 years since John Austin MP wrote to the former Met Commissioner Sir John Stevens on my behalf regarding crucial legal issues raised by my FOOTBALL AGAINST RACISM IN EUROPE (fare) 1991-2010 legal case.
Since then we have been treated to a scenario of ignored communications, lost files, conveniently manufactured delays, and associated IPCC bias. When we defeated the IPCC & Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on these FARE Human and Civil Rights issues on the 28th February 2007 in Court No 1 at the Royal Courts of Justice before the Honourable Mr Justice Goldring, the RECORD OF EVENTS presented to the Court fully detailed the shameful attempts at joint cover up by the Met Police and the IPCC that occurred after the Erith Sector, Police and Community meeting at Erith Town Hall on the 3rd February 2005.
As a qualified surveyor with a duty of care to London's wider community I have not lost any files, I have responded to all correspondence, and my records 2004-2010 are 100% up to date and available for inspection by David Hanson MP, the Police Minister at the Home Office, and/or Jack Straw at the Justice Ministry. This will enable Parliament to assert itself in the face of constructive obstruction, and contempt for The Rule of Law that both my MP and I have both been subjected to.
Former Met Police Inspector Michael Barnbrook, the malevolent neo-Nazi BNP Police Spokesman, has bottled out of standing as a candidate for MP in Father Finigan's Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Blackfen, which is in the late Sir Edward Heath's Old Bexley & Sidcup constituency, and he has run away to hide in Dagenham & Rainham, where the shadow of the odious BNP leader Nick Griffin is casting it's sinister spell of darkness from Barking.
At the next General Election former Met Police Inspector Michael Barnbrook, the malevolent neo-Nazi BNP Police Spokesman, will now be standing as a candidate for MP in the Dagenham and Rainham Parliamentary constituency. Nick Griffin MEP, the BNP's leader will be standing as a candidate for MP in the neighbouring Parliamentary constituency of Barking. The BNP are also threatening to put up candidates in both the Bexleyheath and Crayford, and the Old Bexley and Sidcup constituencies in the London Borough of Bexley.
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson aka Our Lady's Vesper ON-LINE +
More From: www.spreadtheword.org.uk 's cityofsharedstories YouTube - Roy Hobson's anti-Nazi performance in Barking & Dagenham 2007 (From Dark to Light Too)
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Well, it looks ok in Google Chrome...
To @ LAICUS, do you mean the 'videos cover image painting'?
i will assume. i produced this little video, so i can tell you it is a painting called 'The Holy Family'
by Juan Simón GUTIÉRREZ, Spanish painter (b. 1643, Medina Sidonia.
PAX
Murillo was a great guess though
EJG
My late father was called Joseph (and he was a carpenter!) and it is my confirmation name. Many popes (including the present incumbent) have had Joseph (or Giuseppe, Jozef etc) as one of their given names. A quick perusal of the Catholic Hierarchy website reveals that a high percentage of bishops bear this name too. So why then has there been no Pope Joseph? He is the patron of the Universal Church after all.
To the kind Hermit,
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Many thanks indeed for the information.
It's a lovely picture, isn't it? Congratulations on the choice of it and on your production of this devotional video.
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