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To: Salvation
Veni Sancte Spiritus - plainchant with Liber score.

Motet "Veni sancte Spiritus" by the great medieval English composer, John Dunstable (or Dunstaple), (c. 1390 – 24 December 1453). He followed his patron, the Duke of Bedford, to France with the English army, and arguably kick-started the entire Burgundian School of composition. We know he was popular because copies of his work show up in monasteries and libraries all over Europe.

3 posted on 06/30/2014 8:08:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Are these the lyrics?

Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest (Veni, Creator Spiritus)

Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,
and in our souls take up Thy rest;
come with Thy grace and heavenly aid
to fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
O comforter, to Thee we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
and sweet anointing from above.

Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;
Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;
Thou, promise of the Father, Thou
Who dost the tongue with power imbue.

Kindle our sense from above,
and make our hearts o’erflow with love;
with patience firm and virtue high
the weakness of our flesh supply.

Far from us drive the foe we dread,
and grant us Thy peace instead;
so shall we not, with Thee for guide,
turn from the path of life aside.

Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow
the Father and the Son to know;
and Thee, through endless times confessed,
of both the eternal Spirit blest.

Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
with Thou, O Holy Comforter,
henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.


6 posted on 06/30/2014 8:23:27 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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