{"id":2481,"date":"2006-12-02T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/conditor-alme-siderum\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T17:19:15","slug":"conditor-alme-siderum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/conditor-alme-siderum\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditor Alme Siderum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/vangogh%20starry%20night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vangogh%20starry%20night.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/vangogh%20starry%20night-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is my translation of <strong>Conditor Alme Siderum<\/strong>.  When Advent rolls round and I sing this hymn, I see in my mind&#8217;s eye Van Gogh&#8217;s <strong>Starry Night<\/strong>. In the little church with the tall steeple at the bottom of the painting there must be a lingering scent of incense.  Advent Vespers will have been sung.  The Creator of the Starry Night is glorified.<\/em><br \/>\nO Light unconquered, Source of Light,<br \/>\nWhose radiance kindles stars and sun,<br \/>\nShine tenderly on us this night;<br \/>\nCreation groans until you come.<br \/>\nImmense your grief to see our plight:<br \/>\nWhen sin had shrouded all, you came.<br \/>\nTrue Dayspring bursting death&rsquo;s dark bands,<br \/>\nEmmanuel, your saving name!<br \/>\nNight weighed upon a weary world<br \/>\nWhen silently you pitched your tent,<br \/>\nEnclosed within the Virgin&rsquo;s womb<br \/>\nTrue man, true God from heaven sent.<br \/>\nSo to the darkened world in need,<br \/>\nEternal Word, you came as man.<br \/>\nYou came as Bridegroom, swift and strong,<br \/>\nTo claim the prize the course you ran.<br \/>\nUntil your glory fills the skies,<br \/>\nUntil the stars in welcome sing,<br \/>\nUntil you judge both small and great,<br \/>\nFrom sin, protect us, Sovereign King.<br \/>\nTo God the Father, God the Son,<br \/>\nTo God the Spirit ever be<br \/>\nGlad songs of praise throughout the night<br \/>\nWhile faith adores the mystery.  Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my translation of Conditor Alme Siderum. When Advent rolls round and I sing this hymn, I see in my mind&#8217;s eye Van Gogh&#8217;s Starry Night. In the little church with the tall steeple at the bottom of the painting there must be a lingering scent of incense. Advent Vespers will have been sung. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-E1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}