Arlene, do you want a metered, rhymed translation?

If so, if someone could please get me a transliteration by noon tomorrow, I could take a stab at making it into a singable version. Transliteration takes me a lot of time because of my weak Latin.

Sub Tuum and a few other blogs have a verse translation, which seems to be standard. Don't know who it's by.

Mother Anne, be joyful;
sing, O mother lowly,
since thou art the parent
of God's Mother lowly.

Praise thy wondrous daughter;
Joachim, too, raises
to the Virgin Mary
his paternal praises.

For in her our planet
first hath benediction
which in hapless Eva
suffered malediction.

Therefore take the praises
joyous hearts are paying;
and from all defilement
cleanse us by thy praying.

Father, Son eternal,
Holy Ghost supernal,
with one praise we bless Thee,
Three-in-One confess Thee. Amen.

Thanks, David and Maureen.

i like the word 'Xantonense' very much

Ah, I always forget terra refers to the planet Earth as well as 'land.' That probably works better here.

The exuberant rejoicing stands out in this hymn, in plaude, gaude, congaude, and my favorite: "ovantes"--think 'ovation'.
All very cheerful. Looking forward to Kathy's rendition.

Brava, Maestra! You are surely amongst the Muses in the Abbey :)

Kathy, this is truly beautiful - nay, masterful. I really like your cadence and rhyme. Too bad there is such a paucity of moving tunes in this metre. They all seem to be rather stodgy and dull. Perhaps a fitting tune can be composed for it; one that has some rhythmic interest.

Thank you!

I had doubts about the banners, so that's good :)

Re: tunes, my method of hymn writing involves finding a tune in that meter and letting the text just unfold; it sings itself into being, more or less. Then the main work is sitting comfortably in an armchair and throwing away almost everything that occurs to me, and writing down things that might work. The only tune I could come up with here is Darwall's 148th (Rejoice, the Lord Is King), which explains some of the exuberance of vs. 2.

There's a metrical issue in the last verse. I'll fix it tomorrow. Anything else?

I didn't find any 6666 (that last digit is crucial...) hymns in Worship II. Are there any without a refrain? If not, the Cantus Selecti tune works.

Kathy---you're on target-- "and honor to the Ghost" doesn't quite cut it. I like the banners, even though they're not in the Latin, because they evoke the sense of festivity that is really there.

There are half a dozen or so in the 1940, The English Hymnal, Hymns A&M, Gracewings' The Catholic Hymn Book. But they all seem lackluster to me. Darwall's, on the other hand (even with a possible refrain) seems a little triumphalistic for this text; though it is a superb tune.

You could always sing it to "Ave Maris Stella", just like it said on the tin. :)

Here's something serviceable in Long Meter iambic. (Verse 5 is a standard doxology, probably not written especially for this hymn.)

Rejoice, O mother Anne, rejoice!
O holy mother, lift your voice!
The daughter you have brought to birth
Is mother of our God on earth.

Ring out your joy, exult and pray:
The Virgin Queen is born today!
And celebrate with Joachim
This child who springs from you and him.

Behold, the blessings of her birth
Shall overturn the curse of earth.
What our first mother lost by sin
This newborn mother's Son will win.

St. Anna, hear our joyful cries,
And raise our banners to the skies,
Where you delight to see His face
Who cleanses us from sin by grace.

I wanted to mention that this hymn makes prolonged use of a verb form I like to think of as "the devotional imperative." We are telling saints how to feel. It's a funny thing: if we didn't tell St. Anne to rejoice, she probably would anyway! But our act of telling her increases OUR joy. At least that's one way of taking it.

This kind of expression abounds in Latin hymns. There are times when an imperative expression might be taken differently, as a kind of priestly prayer--a directive--rather than a devotional prayer of honor. For example, I take the "benedicite's" of the morning canticle from Daniel to be priestly prayers in this sense. We can, and are supposed to, tell mountains and hills to bless the Lord. But I don't think we can talk to a saint in quite that way. Our imperative in this case must mean something different.

I'm liking this better in Short Meter.

O mother Anne, rejoice!
O mother blest, applaud:
Your daughter has been born today:
The Mother of our God.

The Virgin Mary born!
A new parental bliss!
Rejoice, rejoice with Joachim
For such a babe as this!

Your daughter is the first
Of blessings we receive,
Renewing earth whose early dawn
Was cursed because of Eve.

And so we give you praise,
And banners raise today,
And ask that through your holy prayers
Our sins be washed away.

To God the Father, praise,
And glory to the Son,
And honor to the Spirit bright:
Blest Trinity in One.

I would probably want to sing this so Swabia or something like that, the text just seems to fit for me.

Everyone decried the lack of fitting tunes, and Jackson suggested something with rhythmic interest, so I decided to submit a little hymn-smithery: something jaunty for Kathy's translation.

Blessed feast day.

This is one of my favorite old-timey threads here.

Blessed feast day!