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Re: Ancient Sequence (Thursday after Pentecost)

Jeff Ostrowski · May 29, 2023

ERONICA MORENO recently published a fascinating article called: Terrific Pentecost Hymn You’ve Not Heard Before! Basically, Veronica spoke about the ancient Sequence for Pentecost Thursday called: Qui Procédis Ab Utróque. Veronica provided quite a bit of information. For example, she posted a PDF organ accompaniment—99 pages!—by HENRI POTIRON (professor at the Gregorian Institute in Paris) which contains an accompaniment for that Sequence. Veronica also provided a peerless metrical translation by MONSIGNOR RONALD KNOX, which is #710 in the Brébeuf Portal. She also posted rehearsal videos, a mediæval manuscript, background for the ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN tune, and other interesting items.

FSSP Priest Enters! • A member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter saw the article and was inspired to create—for the first time in history—a literal translation into English:

Qui procédis ab utróque,
Genitóre Genitóque,
Páriter Paráclite.
Redde linguas eloquéntes,
Fac fervéntes in te mentes
Flamma tua dívite.

Thou who procedest equally from each,
Father and Son,
O Paraclete:
render tongues rich in speech,
make minds glow for thee
through thy lavish flame.

Amor Patris Filiíque,
Par ambórum et utríque
Compar et consímilis.
Cuncta reples, cuncta foves,
Astra regis, caelum moves,
Pérmanens immóbilis.

Love of the Father and Son,
equal of both, and to each
matched and alike:
all thou fillest, all thou tendest,
stars thou rulest, heaven thou movest,
all unmoving thou remaining.

Lumen carum, lumen clarum,
Internárum tenebrárum
Éffugans calíginem.
Per te mundi sunt mundáti:
Tu peccátum, tu peccáti
Déstruis rubíginem.

Light beloved, light radiant,
putting to flight the obscurity
of inward shadows:
the clean by thee are cleansed:
thou sin, and thou sin’s
rust destroyest.

Veritátem notam facis,
Et osténdis viam pacis,
Et iter justítiae.
Perversórum corda vitas,
Et bonórum corda ditas
Múnere sciéntiae.

Truth thou makest known,
thou showest both the way of peace
and the course of justice.
The hearts of the depraved thou shunnest,
and the hearts of the good thou enrichest
with the gift of knowledge.

Te docénte nil obscúrum,
Te regénte nil impúrum
Sub tua praeséntia.
Gloriátur mens jucúnda
Per te laeta; per te munda
Gaudet consciéntia.

With thy teaching naught is darksome,
with thy ruling naught is sullied
beneath thy gaze
[lit. presence].
The cheerful mind glories,
gladdened by thee; made clean
by thee, conscience rejoices.

Tu commútas eleménta:
Per te suam sacraménta
Habent efficáciam.
Tu nocívam vim repéllis,
Tu confútas et reféllis
Hóstium nequítiam.

Elements thou convertest:
by thee do the sacraments
possess their power.
Harmful force thou drivest away,
thou restrainest and exposest
the wickedness of foes.

Quando venis, corda lenis:
Quando subis, átrae nubis
Éffugit obscúritas.
Sacer ignis, cor fidélis
Intus uris, et a curis
Purgas, quando vísitas.

When thou comest, thou softenest hearts:
when thou enterest, there flees
the dismal cloud’s darkness.
O hallowed fire, the faithful heart
thou burnest within, and from cares
thou clearest, when thou visitest.

Mentes prius imperítas
Et sopítas et oblítas
Érudis et éxcitas.
Foves linguas, formas sonum;
Cor ad bonum facit pronum
A te data cáritas.

Minds hitherto unaware,
both deadened and besmeared
[or in another sense, deceived]
thou refinest and rousest.
Tongues thou tendest, speech thou shapest;
charity, given by thee,
makes the heart inclined to good.

O juvámen oppressórum,
O solámen miserórum,
Páuperum refúgium.
Da contémptum terrenórum,
Ad amórem supernórum
Trahe desidérium.
Amen.

O aid of the downtrodden,
O solace of the wretched,
haven of the poor:
grant
[us] disregard of earthly things,
to the love of things above
draw
[our] longing.
Amen.

Provenance • I believe this Sequence was mainly used in France. You can tell it’s relatively late as it’s written according to rhyme and stress-accent (QuaLitative), rather than long and short syllables (QuanTitative). For more on this, cf. my 2016 article: The “Long & Short” of Latin Hymns.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Alles Ist An Gottes Segen, Henri Potiron, Monsignor Ronald Knox Traditional Mass, Qui procédis ab utróque, Sequence for Pentecost Thursday Last Updated: May 29, 2023

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Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Michigan. —(Read full biography).

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    Sevilla Cathedral (entry dated 13 December 1564): The chapter orders Luis Martínez, a cathedral chaplain, to stay away from the choirbook-stand when the rest of the singers gather around it to sing polyphony—the reason being that “he throws the others out of tune.” [Excerpt from “The Life of Father Francisco Guerrero.”]
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    “Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)
    I was asked to create a booklet for my parish to use during our CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION on 22 June 2025. Would you be willing to look over the DRAFT BOOKLET (16 pages) I came up with? I tried to include a variety of hymns: some have a refrain; some are in major, others in minor; some are metered, others are plainsong; some are in Spanish, some are in Latin, but most are in English. Normally, we’d use the Brébeuf Hymnal—but we can’t risk having our congregation carry those heavy books all over the city to various churches.
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    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
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    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
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“So, as in delirium a man talks in a long-forgotten tongue, now—when her heart is rent—the Catholic Church drops twenty centuries without an effort, and speaks as she spoke underground in Rome, and in Paul’s hired house, and in Crete and Alexandria and Jerusalem.”

— A non-Catholic describing the “Hagios O Theos” of Good Friday in 1906

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