Te Joseph celebrent, Latin Chant, Solemnity of St Joseph

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Written by Fr. Juan Escollar (d. 1700), this hymn is used at Vespers for the feast of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (March 19), Patron of the Universal Church, and then again on May 1 (St. Joseph the Worker).
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This chant was performed by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey Notre Dame de Fontgombault
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Latin Text:
Te Joseph celebrent agmina caelitum
te cuncti resonent Christiadum chori
qui clarus meritis iunctus es inclitae
casto foedere Virgini
Almo cum tumidam germine coniugem
admirans dubio tangeris anxius
afflatu superi Flaminis Angelus
conceptum puerum docet
Tu natum Dominum stringis ad exteras
Aegypti profugum tu sequeris plagas
amissum Solymis quaeris et invenis
miscens gaudia fletibus
Electos reliquos mors pia consecrat1
palmamque emeritos gloria suscipit
tu vivens Superis par frueris Deo
mira sorte beatior
Nobis summa Trias parce precantibus
da Ioseph meritis sidera scandere
ut tandem liceat nos tibi perpetim
gratum promere canticum
Amen

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