Yes, please do. Has Mark's mother passed?

Bumping for the Feast.

Not a problem. Simson. It's just that I envisioned my tune being used both for "Conditor alme siderum" and for "Adorna, Sion, thalamum" as being some sort of "musical bookends of light" embracing the extended season that runs from Advent to Candlemas.

I had a request (thanks, Stimson!) for a transposition of my setting of this hymn downward, for men's voices. Here it is, transposed down a perfect fifth. Feel free to use it with your TTBB or ATBB choir.

I am, although I must admit I'm cheating a little - we're starting with 1st Vespers on the evening of February 1st, followed by the procession and mass afterwards. Not sure if that's cheating, but we're going for it!

Oops. Ahead of myself.

But we are having a mass for the Presentation of Our Lady on the 21st, as well.

Thanks to Kathy for her translation of this magnificent hymn.

Here's my attempt at a translation - in the style in the Personal Ordinariates we need to have our hymns in a slightly more "antique" English:

Adorn the Bridal Chamber, thou,
Who for thy Lord, awaiteth now;
Receive, O Sion, Groom and Bride,
And watchful, in faith's light, abide!

Make haste, O blessed Simeon, see,
The promised joy fulfilled to thee:
God's light to gentiles now is shown;
His very self to all made known.

His parents Christ to temple bring:
Temple, in temple, offering;
He wills the law to undergo
Who to the law doth nothing owe.

O Virgin Bless'd, present thy Son
Thine and the Father's only One,
Present Him through whom we present
The price for our redemption spent.

Come forth, O Virgin royal, bring
Thy Son with humble offering;
He maketh all heav'n's joys to see,
Who comes that all might savèd be.

Jesu, to thee glory be giv'n
Who show'th to all the light of heav'n,
To Father and to Spirit bless'd,
Eternal praises be address'd. Amen.

Nigel,

Whither hast thou searched, that thou should'st discover such a gem, isolated only within the prison walls of that which, by its nature is but ordinary and personal, when, for so it is manifest even to the blind man and the deaf mute, the leper and the slave, that beauty is but the personal realm of none but God Himself, the tool He doth deploy to instruct us in love, and thus meet to employ in the worship of Him wheresoe'er thou art, heedless of whom thou art?

surely: "thou... awaitest" and "Jesu, to thee... who show'st"

--- or would "that show'st" be more in the conventions of the antique style? Apparently the relative pronoun "who" was used sometimes in the 1600s but not always.

If you're using the old style, then be consistent; (v. 5) "Who comes" would need a revision.

This may provide some useful guidance:
https://public.oed.com/blog/grammar-in-early-modern-english/

we sang it today with DANBY. very good.