Enciclopedia Cattolica

SPLENDOR PATERNAE GLORIAE

Volume XI · p. 698 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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«SPLENDOR PATERNAE GLORIAE». - Inno delle Lodi per il lunedì, composto da s. Ambrogio.
«SPLENDOR PATERNAE GLORIAE». - Inno delle Lodi per il lunedì, composto da s. Ambrogio.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

«SPLENDOR PATERNAE GLORIAE». — Hymn of Lauds for Monday, composed by St. Ambrose.

The light of day dazzles the poet and transports him to that spiritual light, to Christ, the splendor of eternal glory, and to Him he raises devout prayer that from the Father he may obtain the grace of perseverance in good, the flight from sin, and the purity of thought.

BIBL.: L. Biraghi, Inni sinceri di s. Ambrogio, Milano 1862, p. 113; G. S. Pimont, Les hymnes du Brév. romain, I, Parigi 1874, pp. 139-53; F. Vanderstuyf, Les hymnes de l'Ordinaire au Brév. romain, ivi 1912, pp. 70-73.