Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion: * et tibi reddétur votum in Jerúsalem.
Exáudi oratiónem meam: * ad te omnis caro véniet.
Verba iniquórum prævaluérunt super nos: * et impietátibus nostris tu propitiáberis.
Beátus, quem elegísti, et assumpsísti: * inhabitábit in átriis tuis.
Replébimur in bonis domus tuæ: sanctum est templum tuum, * mirábile in æquitáte.
Exáudi nos, Deus, salutáris noster, * spes ómnium fínium terræ, et in mari longe.
Præparans montes in virtúte tua, accínctus poténtia: * qui contúrbas profúndum maris sonum flúctuum ejus.
Turbabúntur gentes, et timébunt qui hábitant términos a signis tuis: * éxitus matutíni, et véspere delectábis.
Visitásti terram, et inebriásti eam:
* multiplicásti locupletáre eam.
Flumen Dei replétum est aquis, parásti cibum illórum: * quóniam ita est præparátio ejus.
Rivos ejus inébria, multíplica genímina ejus: * in stillicídiis ejus lætábitur gérminans.
Benedíces corónæ anni benignitátis tuæ: * et campi tui replebúntur ubertáte.
Pinguéscent speciósa desérti: * et exsultatióne colles accingéntur.
Indúti sunt aríetes óvium, et valles abundábunt fruménto: * clamábunt, étenim hymnum dicent.
(Photos by author: Fordham University church and Fordham College Class of '84 holy Mass at Dealy Chapel, both at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, New York. For more photos visit A Priest Life.)
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