Three fragments from Stabat Mater

Song Cycle by Ľubica Čekovská (b. 1975)

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Language: Latin 
1 Stabat Mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
dum pendebat Filius.
 
2. Cuius animam gementem,
contristatam et dolentem,
pertransivit gladius.
 
3. O quam tristis et afflicta
fuit illa benedicta
Mater Unigeniti.
 
4. Quæ mœrebat et dolebat,
Pia Mater cum [videbat]1
Nati pœnas incliti.
 
5. Quis est homo qui non fleret,
Matrem Christi si videret
in tanto supplicio?
 
6. Quis non posset contristari,
Christi Matrem contemplari
dolentem cum Filio?
 
7. Pro peccatis suæ gentis
vidit Iesum in tormentis
et flagellis subditum.
 
8. Vidit suum dulcem natum
moriendo desolatum,
dum emisit spiritum.
 
9. Eia Mater, fons amoris,
me sentire vim doloris
fac, ut tecum lugeam.
 
10. Fac ut ardeat cor meum
in amando Christum Deum,
ut sibi complaceam.
 
11. Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifixi fige plagas
cordi meo valide.
 
12. Tui nati vulnerati,
tam dignati pro me pati,
pœnas mecum divide.
 
13. Fac me [vere tecum]2 flere,
Crucifixo condolere,
donec ego vixero.
 
14. Iuxta crucem tecum stare,
[et me tibi]3 sociare
in planctu desidero.
 
15. Virgo virginum præclara,
mihi iam non sis amara:
fac me tecum plangere.
 
16. Fac ut portem Christi mortem,
passionis fac consortem,
et plagas recolere.
 
17. Fac me plagis vulnerari,
[fac me cruce inebriari,
et cruore]4 Filii.
 
18. [Flammis ne urar succensus]5
per te Virgo, sim defensus
in die [judicii]6.7
 
19. Christe, cum sit hinc exire,
da per Matrem me venire
ad palmam victoriae.
 
20. Quando corpus morietur,
fac ut animæ donetur
Paradisi gloria. Amen

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Stabat mater"
  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "The sorrowful mother", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La mère pleine de douleurs", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Karl Eitner) , "Stabat mater dolorosa"

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1 Dvořák: "videbat et tremebat"
2 Ferko: "tecum pie"
3 Dvořák: "te libenter"
4 Dvořák: "Cruce hac inebriari/ ob amorem"
5 Dvořák: "Inflammatus et accensus"
6 Dvořák: "iudicii"
7 Dvořák adds 
Fac me cruce custodiri,
morte Christi præmuniri,
confoveri gratia.

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