• I am avoiding it like the plague. I am just having a hard time looking for O Sun of Justice. The OCP version pretty much slaughters the beauty of the hymn and it is not set to Jesus Dulcis Memoria.
  • ryandryand
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    Hey, if we can rise from ashes, why not just sing up ourselves a splendid new church in the process?

    Absurdity abounds.
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  • Maureen
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    Sigh. It's a very failed versification of a perfectly good passage from The Imitation of Christ, or of some very similar devotional prayer at the offertory:

    Here's an excerpt from The Imitation of Christ, part 4, chapter 9:

    "All things in heaven and on earth, O Lord, are Yours. I long to give myself to You as a voluntary offering to remain forever Yours. With a sincere heart I offer myself this day to You, O Lord, to Your eternal service, to Your homage, and as a sacrifice of everlasting praise. Receive me with this holy offering of Your precious Body which also I make to You this day, in the presence of angels invisibly attending, for my salvation and that of all Your people.

    O Lord, upon Your altar of expiation, I offer You all the sins and offenses I have committed in Your presence and in the presence of Your holy angels, from the day when I first could sin until this hour, that You may burn and consume them all in the fire of Your love, that You may wipe away their every stain, cleanse my conscience of every fault, and restore to me Your grace which I lost in sin by granting full pardon for all and receiving me mercifully with the kiss of peace.

    What can I do for all my sins but humbly confess and lament them, and implore Your mercy without ceasing? In Your mercy, I implore You, hear me when I stand before You, my God. All my sins are most displeasing to me. I wish never to commit them again. I am sorry for them and will be sorry as long as I live. I am ready to do penance and make satisfaction to the utmost of my power.

    Forgive me, O God, forgive me my sins for Your Holy Name. Save my soul which You have redeemed by Your most precious Blood. See, I place myself at Your mercy. I commit myself to Your hands. Deal with me according to Your goodness, not according to my malicious and evil ways.

    I offer to You also all the good I have, small and imperfect though it be, that You may make it more pure and more holy, that You may be pleased with it, render it acceptable to Yourself, and perfect it more and more, and finally that You may lead me, an indolent and worthless creature, to a good and happy end.

    I offer You also all the holy desires of Your devoted servants, the needs of my parents, friends, brothers, sisters, and all who are dear to me; of all who for Your sake have been kind to me or to others; of all who have wished and asked my prayers and Masses for them and theirs, whether they yet live in the flesh or are now departed from this world, that they may all experience the help of Your grace, the strength of Your consolation, protection from dangers, deliverance from punishment to come, and that, free from all evils, they may gladly give abundant thanks to You.

    I offer You also these prayers and the Sacrifice of Propitiation for those especially who have in any way injured, saddened, or slandered me, inflicted loss or pain upon me, and also for all those whom I have at any time saddened, disturbed, offended, and abused by word or deed, willfully or in ignorance. May it please You to forgive us all alike our sins and offenses against one another.

    Take away from our hearts, O Lord, all suspicion, anger, wrath, contention, and whatever may injure charity and lessen brotherly love. Have mercy, O Lord, have mercy on those who ask Your mercy, give grace to those who need it, and make us such that we may be worthy to enjoy Your favor and gain eternal life."



    Why the heck do they "fix" lyrics that don't need fixing, and don't fix lyrics that do.... Sigh....
  • Kathy
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    It's a translation of Jam Christe Sol Justiciae, quite an ancient hymn. Perhaps GIA owns the copyright and OCP had to translate it separately?
  • I really love O Sun of Justice because it speaks to the nature of the Lenten season. Jesus Dukcis Memorial is the perfect tune for this.
  • Kathy
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    For those who don't have access to GIA licenses, here is a fine translation in the public domain http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/IamChriste.html