Veni Sancte Spiritus - Come, Holy Spirit - Pentecost Sequence with English - Gregorian Chant

Sung and Arranged by Caitlin and Michael Foster
Translation: Father James Ambrose Dominic Aylward, O.P. (1813-1872)
Attributed to: Stephen Langton, Archibishop of Canterbury (c. 1150 - 1228) or Pope Innocent III, (1160 -1216)
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This sequence, the Golden Sequence, is sung on Pentecost Sunday, or Whitsunday. It is one of four sequences that were preserved in the liturgy after the Council of Trent.
English Translation:
Holy Spirit, come and shine
On our souls with beams divine,
Issuing from thy radiance bright.
Come, O Father of the poor,
Ever bounteous of thy store,
Come, our hearts unfailing light.
Come, consoler, kindest, best,
Come, our bosom’s dearest guest,
Sweet refreshment, sweet repose.
Rest in labour, coolness sweet,
Tempering the burning heat,
Truest comfort of our woes.
O divinest light, impart
Unto every faithful heart
Plenteous streams from love’s bright flood.
But for thy blest Deity,
Nothing pure in man could be;
Nothing harmless, nothing good.
Wash away each sinful stain;
Gently shed thy gracious rain
On the dry and fruitless soul.
Heal each wound and bend each will,
Warm our hearts benumbed and chill,
All our wayward steps control.
Unto all thy faithful just,
Who in thee confide and trust,
Deign the seven-fold gift to send.
Grant us virtue’s blest increase,
Grant a death of hope and peace,
Grant the joys that never end.
Latin Text:
Veni, Sancte Spiritus,
et emitte caelitus
lucis tuae radium.
Veni, pater pauperum,
veni, dator munerum,
veni, lumen cordium.
Consolator optime,
dulcis hospes animae,
dulce refrigerium.
In labore requies,
in aestu temperies,
in fletu solatium.
O lux beatissima,
reple cordis intima
tuorum fidelium.
Sine tuo numine,
nihil est in homine,
nihil est innoxium.
Lava quod est sordidum,
riga quod est aridum,
sana quod est saucium.
Flecte quod est rigidum,
fove quod est frigidum,
rege quod est devium.
Da tuis fidelibus,
in te confidentibus,
sacrum septenarium.
Da virtutis meritum,
da salutis exitum,
da perenne gaudium.

[@DavidGarcia-pm4qj]

This type of music will make church popular again.

[@admiralbob77]

This is a staggeringly beautiful rendition of the sequence.

[@stlouisix3]

This is a Wonderful Hymn✝️❤️‍🔥🕊️🐑⛪🕯️💒☘️🙏🌹⚜️🕊️🕊️❤😊

[@hawandaw1235]

Merci beaucoup Gloire à Jésus pour l'éternité ❤

[@durandelasturias3156]

Beautiful setting. By the way, what are you using to generate the illumination style art? Your neume generator looks really clean and well spaced.

[@neumesandtunes]

Thanks! I am taking the illuminations from actual manuscripts that are in the public domain. And I’m just using Illuminare Score editor for the chant itself.

[@cg1tube]

Where can I find this exact accompaniment, vocal parts?

[@neumesandtunes]

I have a rough sketch in pencil of the harmonies we used? I don’t know if anyone besides me can even read it but I could try to at least post it on Patreon

[@gorycaje]

​@@neumesandtunes I'm also interested, let me know if you have it posted somewhere!!

[@neumesandtunes]

@@gorycaje I do have it posted on my Patreon, but be warned that it will be somewhat difficult to interpret. It’s handwritten over top of the Gregorian chant notation.

[@user-ec8ed3ky8e]

This isn’t Gregorian chant notation. I sang Gregorian chant in a Latin choir for five years. It’s a pretty arrangement but the venous a sequence and should be sung properly.

[@neumesandtunes]

Thanks for the feedback. We do sing it the way it written in the liber at Mass, but enjoy taking artistic liberties on KZbin, in the spirit of medieval composers such as Machaut up to the present day.

[@admiralbob77]

@@neumesandtunes Never apologise for the work you do. The church, as you say, has constantly crafted new melodies for text. The Solesmes version @user-ec8ed3ky8e alludes to has only been sung for 120 years - prior to that was a different Medicean/Ratisbon version, and the Vatican published a version without Solesmes markings in 1908. You make magnificent music, and I hope you continue to make it exactly as you wish to.