O God, come to my assistance.

Lord, make haste to help me.

Glody, Patry, and filio, and spiritu and santo.

Seekut herat in principio, and not get

semper, and in secula, seculo, amen, alleluia.

Now dawn proclaims the sun's approach, with rays so welcome to the earth.

With color she adorns the world and clothes all things in fairest hue.

O Christ the everlasting sun, you shine on us with living light.

We turn to you with hymns of praise and long to find our joy in you.

You are the wisdom from on high, The Father's Word through whom all things

In wondrous order shine with light

And so attract our minds and hearts.

Then grant us children of the light to walk with zeal and eager step that always by our lives and acts we show the father's light and grace.

Lord grant that we may always seek, sincerely with no trace of guile, and that the sweetest joys

of truth may stir and raise our mind and heart.

O Christ to you most loving king,

and to the Father, glory be,

One with the spirit paraclete

From age to age forevermore.

Amen.

The man whose deeds are blameless and whose heart is pure will climb the mountain of the Lord.

The Lord's is the earth and its fullness, the world and all its peoples. It is he who set it on the seas, on the waters he made it firm.

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