De Patriarchis et Prophetis Ant.

O spectabiles viri,

qui pertransistis occulta,

aspicientes per oculos spiritus

et annuntiantes in lucida umbra

acutam et viventem lucem, in virga germinantem,

quæ sola floruit de introitu

radicantis luminis.

Vos antiqui sancti,

prædixistis salvationem exulum animarum

quæ immersæ fuerant morti,

qui circuistis ut rotæ,

mirabiliter loquentes mystica montis, qui cælum tangit,

pertransiens ungendo multas aquas,

cum etiam inter vos surrexit lucida lucerna,

quæ ipsum montem præcurrens ostendit.

De Patriarchis et Prophetis Resp.

O vos, felices radices

cum quibus opus miraculorum,

et non opus criminum,

per torrens iter perspicuæ umbre plantatum est.

Et o tu, ruminans ignea vox,

precurrens limantem lapidem

subvertentem abyssum,

[R] Gaudete in capite vestro.

Gaudete in illo quem non viderunt

in terris multi,

qui ipsum ardenter vocaverunt.

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Antiphon for the Patriarchs and Prophets

O eminent men,

Who traversed the hidden ways,

And looked with the eyes of the spirit,

And in lucent shadows announced

The living light that would bud from the stem,

Which blossomed alone from

the light that rooted it from within.

You ancient saints

Foretold the souls' salvation

Who were sunk in death,

Like wheels you turned and circled, and

Wondrously spoke of the mount that touches heaven,

And then He came and anointed the many waters,

And so the shining light arose among you

And, going before Him, displayed the mount Himself.

Responsory for the Patriarchs and Prophets

O you, happy roots,

From whom miracles

And not vices

Grew in the burning way of lucent shadow!

And you, o fiery voice of meditation

Who went before the abyss-sealing cornerstone;

That overthrows the abyss:

[R] Rejoice in your captain.

Rejoice in the one whom so many

Invoked with ardor,

Yet did not see upon earth.

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