LUMEN HILARE
Venite, Audite, Gaudete!
Vere Languores
Music by Mark Ruttle
The text is compiled from Passion Week. The first stanza from Isaiah 53: 4-5. The second stanza is from Isaiah 50: 6, Lamentations 1:16 and Isaiah 63:5. The music forms a meditation on the desolation, loneliness and rejection of Christ before His crucifixion.
Vere languores nostros ipse tulit,
et dolore nostros ipse portavit;
Cujus livore sanati sumus.
faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus in me
Attendite, universi populi, et videte dolorem meum.
quoniam tribulatio proxima est, et non est qui adiuvet.
Truly He Himself bore our griefs,
and He Himself carried our sorrows;
by His wounds we are healed.
I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me,
and spit upon me.
Attend, all ye people, and see my sorrow:
For my tribulation is very near, and there is none to help me.