Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.

Ne irascaris Domine, ne ultra memineris iniquitatis: ecce civitas Sancti facta est deserta: Sion deserta facta est: Jerusalem desolata est: domus sanctificationis tuae et gloriae tuae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri.

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.

Peccavimus, et facti sumus tamquam immundus nos, et cecidimus quasi folium universi: et iniquitates nostrae quasi ventus abstulerunt nos: abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostrae.

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.

Vide Domine afflictionem populi tui, et mitte quem missurus es: emitte Agnum dominatorem terrae, de Petra deserti ad montem filiae Sion: ut auferat ipse iugum captivitatis nostrae.

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.

Consolamini, consolamini, popule meus: cito veniet salus tua: quare maerore consumeris, quia innovavit te dolor? Salvabo te, noli timere, ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, Sanctus Israel, Redemptor tuus.

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.

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English translation

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.

Be not angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity : behold the city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert. Jerusalem is desolate, the house of our holiness and of thy glory, where our fathers praised thee.

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.

We have sinned, and we are become as one unclean, and we have all fallen as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us by the hand of our iniquity.

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.

See, O Lord, the affliction of thy people, and send him whom thou hast promised to send. Send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth, from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion, that he himself may take off the yoke of our captivity.

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.

Be comforted, be comforted, my people; thy salvation shall speedily come. Why wilt thou waste away in sadness? why hath sorrow seized thee? I will save thee; fear not: for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.

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- This music is from Advent

Translation found at:
http://www.chantcd.com/lyrics/rorate_caeli_desuper.htm

Rorate Coeli - Antiphon

Part of the TFP Chivalry Songbook

Text By R. Teodosio

Based on Wellerman (Sea Shanty)
Produced by A. Zapata for the TFP Call to Chivalry Songbook

To Campaigning We Shall Go

Song Of The Crusade - Soint Louis IX - Instrumental 2022

Produced by A. Zapata - For the TFP Chivalry Songbook 

Available for download free here

https://soundcloud.com/user-102607231-505110170/saint-ferdinand-glorious-king

Inspired by the music of Holy Week in Spain, particularly the processional march "Mi Amargura" by Víctor Manuel Ferrer Castillo

This work, as others featured on TFP South are for educational purposes and entirely a non-profit and charitable initiative.

Here is a good summary video on Saint Ferdinand's conquests.
https://youtu.be/BCeM81FVElA

- Lyrics -

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain! 
Thy enemies do tremble at thy name.
O Varon clothed in steel, a sword of justice dost thou wield!

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain!

Thou crusheth heretic and seracen the same, 
God's avenging arm, through storm, through fight and pain!
A warrior made to lead, a mighty knight on valiant steed

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain!

The first upon the walls of fortress high! 
A fearless grand example to inspire!
Thou reconquerest the land, and Thy sword remains in hand!

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain!

Thy life as noble gold refined in flame,
Thou honorest the Holy Virgin's name!
She, attentive to thy plea, and obtains thy victory!

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain!

And when it came the end, thy final day, 
on floor and ash, in cross form did thou lay. 
On ground of coldest stone, yet on thee the Heavens shone! 

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain!

Now in glory doth thou make thy aid be nigh. O patron! 
Strike the blows and make the devils fly! 
We as vassals, call thy name, through the land do we proclaim!

Saint Ferdinand, most glorious King of Spain! - x2

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NOTE: Saint Ferdinand was the King of Castile and Leon. Later, kingdoms were united to get what we know as Spain. 

If someone wants to rewrite the refrain, "Saint Ferdinand Most Glorious King of Castile and León," it may not fly, so we opt for a bit of poetic license on this rather important detail.

Although one might have an argument on their hands if one were to be square, and tell a good Spaniard that Saint Ferdinand is not "technically" a Spanish Saint but a saint only of Castile and León. Would it not be rather silly?

Saint Ferdinand, King of Spain,
pray for us!
God bless!

Saint Ferdinand - Glorious King - Instrumental

Saint Ferdinand - Glorious King

Litany Of The Most Sacred Heart - TFP South

Produced by P. Americo and A.Zapata for the TFP Three Archangels Music Library

Veni Mater Gratiae - TFP South 2023

In Memoriam Michael Monsoor
This version has been remastered with additional brass orchestration added
Music by A. Zapata for the TFP Chivalry Songbook

To Give All - Instrumental

Grace Light And Hope

Original Music and Text Produced by
A. Zapata for the TFP Chivalry Songbook

HEART FULL OF COURAGE - The First Crusade -

Blessed Urban called the Crusade,
For the land of Christians are pillaged and razed,
For Saracens made it a goal to subdue,
The Cross of Christ, most glorious and true!

And behold there was found a man,
A Godfrey Boullion who would retake the Land,
Where Christ the Lord was bound by His hands,
and a traitor would hang himself over the sands.

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REFRAIN
For now O good Christian, for this you were born!
Take heart full of courage and brave every storm,
so to safeguard the land; where the God-man did dwell,
Who by death on the Cross broke the kingdom of Hell.
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The crusading armies passed over the land,
Through tempests and clashes, through canyons so grand.
Such numerous dangers of battles to death,
for Heavens' gained, heeding the Vicar's request!

REFRAIN

As thunder the drums of the armies resound,
as banners of nobles fly high from the ground,
the rumble of horsemen in numerous file,
the glint of their armor be seen for a mile!

Thus Castle by castle be conquered in time,
till lastly was seen O Jerusalem's shine!
Alas then Duke Godfrey gave order to siege,
The greatest of hardship to accomplish indeed!

REFRAIN

The first in the charge, sending foes to the Judge, a lionlike warrior swinging mace with a thud! Till victory claimed a great treasure attained.
O land where Christ Jesus was born and was slain!

REFRAIN

Heart Full Of Courage - The First Crusade

Saint Nuno Man of War 

Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira

New Original Music Produced by A. Zapata for the TFP Chivalry Songbook

1. Thou art proclaimed aloft, 
the sacral Constable,
Lord Nuno, found to always dwell in Mary's Gaze,
Thy prayer doth reach the brightest star, 
The Queen of Heaven, from afar.
For it is She that always leads thy trialled way! 

2. Holy defender!
All foes shall render,  
all that is due when armies charge at thy command!
Of Portugal, do all the warriors sing, 
so blessed by Christ the King,  
Who showed His strength when...
He delivered by thy hand!

3. Great Knight of purity, 
Model of chivalry,
Thou dost hold fast the captured standard of the foe!
The Sacramental Lord , thy might
Thy Golden Counselor thy light,
and strength while other men would surely flee in fright!

4. Thou art a fearless man 
of sharpest prowess grand, 
if thou surrounded by the foe, 
thy heart is calm, 
true noble strong,
No compromises made, 
The scandalizers learned when thou up-braided...
in full display when tables turned!

REFRAIN
Into the fray! O fighter for Christ's victory!
Thou, wise and brave against all pestilential foe.
The Lord of peace, has taught thee how to war, 
thy victory assured! Oh Holy Constable... Saint Nuno man of War!"
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5. Saint Nuno Constable,
By grace, unstoppable!
With sword unsheathed, 
Thy face aglow in fullest charge.
The man to stop Castilian might,
Whose words did rally men to fight,
who before battles did confess their sins aright!

6. O Sacral Warrior brave
The Holy Virgin's slave!
Thou doth inspireth all souls to virtue high,
In prayer thou waits, 
For God, thou wages war! 
Thy legend strikes the core of every soul that,
that seeketh truth forevermore.

7. Behold the battle cry! 
As spears and arrows fly,
The armies clash, the sound is heard in Heaven, High!
The wind blows dust to fill the realm,
Thy sword dost strike with fearsome sound,
until thou dissapeared when struck unto the ground.

8. Thy captains searched for thee, 
in vain most urgently, 
But in the midst of blinding dust thou was not found. 
"Oh Constable! Where has the valiant gone? 
Tis thee that keeps us one,
To face a danger,
as great as this grand army strong!"
Oh...!

REFRAIN

9. Behold him there indeed! 
In prayer upon the knee,  
With eyes ablaze and arms araised in cruciform! 
"Lord Nuno! Rise and take the lead,
Do thou command! Our urgent plea."
"My son, for this I pray to God that I might see!"

10 "See now their standard blow.
upon that highest slope,
With thy most valiant take their standard and their hope!
This day we shall not perish by the foe!
Who was upon the thresh-hold of taking,
Our Lady's chosen Portugal!"

11. Thou art victorious,
renouned and glorious, 
Thou founded peace 
for thou wert ready for the war,
Yet thy age advanced in years,
Calming so much, Castilian fears,
which lied in wait for all thy praise to turn to tears!

12. In Eliatic brown, 
In Carmel's Habit found
Yet in thy vows 
there were conditions to be drawn,
For if Castile, shall rise to wage a war, 
Thou shall anew, take sword and lead thy men to...
 to crush the foe more than before!

13. Castilian heralds came 
Inquiring of thy name
Thou claimed most readily to lead the armies might.
And for the proof for kings to know,
And that all doubt may cease to grow,
Thou pulled aside thy habit, showing armor bright!

14. And to the great chagrin, 
Of whom Castile had sent, 
Thou took a spear from thine own weapons on the wall,
And with thy strength surprised them all thou did affirm thy godly call when thou did hurl the spear into a distant wall!

15. And thus did end the scene,
The Castilian inquiry,
Which now resigned to leave in peace thy Portugal, 
O man of peace, thy soul was made to soar,
Thy glory is assured! Oh holy Constable, 
Truly thou art the Man of War!

Rorate Coeli - Antiphon

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