Text: Hodie nobis de caelo

Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628)

Original Text English Translation
 
Hodie nobis de caelo
pax vera descendit:
Hodie per totum mundum
melliflui facti sunt caeli.
 
Hodie illuxit nobis
dies redemptionis novae,
reparationes antiquae
felicitatis aeternae.
Hodie per totum mundum
melliflui facti sunt caeli.		 Today for us
true peace came down from heaven.
Today for all the world
the heavens rained sweetness.
 
Today for us hath dawned
the day of our redemption,
and of the restitution
of ancient everlasting bliss.
Today for all the world
the heavens rained sweetness.

 

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