Stella Splendens: appropriate for Christmas?
  • trentonjconn
    Posts: 601
    Is Stella Splendens appropriate as a Christmas motet (OF parish)? Why, or why not?
  • Incardination
    Posts: 832
    Here is the translation from online (which may help you determine suitability):

    Radiant star on the mountain, like a miraculous sunbeam,
    hear the divided people.

    All joyous people come together:
    rich and poor, young and old,
    climb the mountain to see with their own eyes,
    and return from it filled with grace.

    Radiant star…

    Rulers and magnates of royal stripes,
    the mighty of the world, possessing grace,
    proclaim their sins, beating their breast,
    and call on bended knee: Ave Maria.

    Radiant star…

    All these groups assemble here to present themselves,
    To remember their vows and keep them as well
    By enriching this temple, adorning it with jewels
    So that all may see and return in joy, partaking of salvation.

    Radiant star...
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,195
    It's a song of pilgrimage from the Montserrat monastery in Spain.

    As it happens, a two-part setting of it is the last piece, the crowning gem, in our publication Now I Walk in Beauty, the children's songbook edited by Wilko Brouwers (engraved by me). Some sample pages from the book are here.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Incardination
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