Sancta Maria (Johannes Joseph Schweitzer)

he Phos Hilaron is proper to the Byzantine Churches. While a Latin version does exist and was given music in the monumental work "Paeliographie Musicale" from the Benedictine monastery of Solesmes, it had no official place in the western churches.

In the 1970s, however, the University of Notre Dame came up with a modified "cathedral rite" for the celebration of Morning Praise and Evensong. This popularized the concept of beginning Vespers with a "Lucernarium" (a term actually taken from the Mozarabic Use of Toledo, Spain). From the ND program, the use of the Lucernarium to begin Vespers in the western churches spread to the Episcopal "Book of Common Prayer, 1979" and the "Lutheran Book of Worship)" (1978) and the books which have stemmed from the LBW.
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Here is a setting of the Phos Hilaron sung in English to a Gregorian melody. The work on this was done by J. Mason Martens, an Episcopal composer and arranger whose untimely death in the 1990s was mourned by many, including the early members of the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter's in the Loop. Mason had done a workshop in Chicago with the Schola.
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This was the first version of "Phos hilaron" I ever sang; it was an integral part of Evensong every Sunday evening during my college career at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. I was part of a group called the "Lawrence Evensong Singers," who sang Vespers every Sunday of term-time in the Blessed Sacrament chapel of All Saints' Episcopal Church. This church was immediately next door to the Conservatory of Music at L.U. Many, many thanks to the Rev. Ralph R. Stewart and his family for"fostering" us.
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O gracious Light,
pure brightness of the ever-living Father in heaven,
O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!
Now as we come to the setting of the sun,
and our eyes behold the vesper light,
we sing your praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
and to be glorified through all the worlds.

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