Veni Creator Spiritus

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The Veni Creator Spiritus, in english Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, is a liturgical hymn dedicated to the Holy Spirit and attributed to Rabano Mauro, archbishop of Mainz, of the 9th century.

The best known version is the Gregorian one,^[1] but it has also been set to music by numerous authors of polyphonic, classical and contemporary music.

It is regularly sung in the office of Lauds and Vespers on the feast of Pentecost and is often compared to the sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus.

In addition to Pentecost, it is also sung in particular solemn events to invoke the Holy Spirit, such as on the occasion of the conferral of the sacrament of confirmation and, according to tradition, of marriage. It is also sung during the election of the new Pope by the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, for the consecration of bishops, for the ordination of priests, for councils and synods and for the coronation of a sovereign. By reciting it on the first day of the year, with the intention of invoking the Holy Spirit, on the beginning of the year, the plenary indulgence is gained^[2]

Text and translations

Latin text

Veni, creátor Spíritus,
mentes tuórum vísita,
imple supérna grátia,
quæ tu creásti péctora.

Qui díceris Paráclitus,
donum Dei, Altíssimi,
fons vivus, ignis, cáritas,
et spiritális únctio.

Tu septifórmis múnere,
dextræ Dei tu dígitus,
tu rite promíssum Patris,
sermóne ditans gúttura.

Accénde lumen sénsibus:
infúnde amórem córdibus:
infírma nostri córporis
virtúte firmans pérpeti.

Hostem repéllas lóngius,
pacémque dones prótinus:
ductóre sic te prævio
vitémus omne nóxium.

Per te sciámus da Patrem,
noscámus atque Fílium,
te utriúsque Spíritum
credámus omni témpore.

Amen.

English version^[3]

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
Vouchsafe within our souls to rest;
Come with Thy grace and heav'nly aid
And fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

To Thee, the Comforter, we cry,
To Thee, the Gift of God Most High,
The Fount of life, the Fire of love,
The soul's Anointing from above.

The sev'n-fold gifts of grace are Thine,
O Finger of the Hand Divine;
True Promise of the Father Thou,
Who dost the tongue with speech endow.

Thy light to every thought impart
And shed Thy love in every heart;
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.

Drive far away our wily Foe,
And Thine abiding peace bestow;
If Thou be our protecting Guide,
No evil can our steps betide.

Make Thou to us the Father known;
Teach us the eternal Son to own
And Thee, whose name we ever bless,
Of both the Spirit, to confess.

Amen

In the Graduale Romanum, 1974, this prayer is also reported:

V. Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur. (T.P. AllelUia.)
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae. (T.P. Alleluia.)
V. Oremus.

V. Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratióne docuisti: + da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, * et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.
R. Amen.

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