Qui lacrimatus Lazarum

Continuing with the series of translations of chants from the Office of the Dead; this is the hymn for midday prayer.

The hymn recalls three images of death from the gospels, asks Christ to help us overcome our own sorrow at someone's death, and further asks him to grant the dead person life. Notice the usual image of heaven in chant: a place where we sing to God, as if that is what everyone thinks of as the ultimate fulfillment. :-) Also: I believe that "the guilty" for whom Christ asks pardon, are those for whom he asks in the Gospel: Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.

Qui lacrimátus Lázarum geménsque cum soróribus, ipsum fecísti præpotens illárum reddi stúdiis:	You wept for Lazarus and mourned with his sisters, showing great power, you returned him to their elation:
Qui petivísti sóntibus benígnus indulgéntiam, ac verba miserántia dixísti pœnæ sócio:	In kindness, you asked leniency for the guilty, and you spoke a merciful word for your companion in punishment:
Qui, móriens, discípulo matrem donásti Vírginem, tuórum quæ fidélium agóni adésset último:	Dying, you gave your Virgin mother to your disciple, she who would stand by the final agony of your faithful:
Da nobis, Christe Dómine, tuo redémptis sánguine, duræ mortis tristítiam in vitæ verti gaúdium.	O Christ our Lord, grant us who have been redeemed by your blood, to turn from the sorrow of hard death, to the joy of life.
Tuúmque (-ámque, -ósque) voca fámulum (-am, -os), ex hoc proféctum (-am, -os) sæculo, ut ubi mors iam déerit te vitæ canat (-ant) príncipem. Amen.	And call your servant(s), who has (have) moved forward out of this age, that the place where death now takes him (her, them), be where he (she, they) may hymn the prince of life. Amen.