Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia

Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia

Hymn for Matins for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by Saint Thomas Aquinas. About fifteen translations of it are in existence. The English title given above is composite, based on the one by J. Chambers.

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia

is the beginning of a festival hymn composed by Thomas Aquinas, of which the first stanza runs thus:

Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia,

Et ex praecordiis soneut praeconia;

Recedant vetera, nova sint omnia,

Corda, voces, et opera.

There is an English translation by Chambers in the Lyra Eucharistica, p. 70:

Let this our solemn feast W

ith holy joys be crowned, etc.;

and another by Caswall in Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated, p. 54:

Let old things pass away, L

et all be fresh and bright, etc.

There is also a German translation of this hymn in Bassler’s Auswahl altchristlicher Lieder (Berlin, 1858), p. 116, and a second one in Rambach, Anthologie christlicher Gesange, 1, 311. (B.P.)

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature