Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, from generation to generation.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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Dómine, refúgium factus es nobis a generatióne et progénie. Priusquam montes fierent, aut formaretur terra et orbis, a saeculo et usque in saeculum tu es, Deus. Alleluia.
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, from generation to generation. Alleluia.
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Dómine, refúgium factus es nobis a generatióne et progénie. Allelúia.
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Alleluia: Domine refugium, for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, from Graduale Romanum, Solesmes, 1961, p. 355 or The Liber Usualis, Solesmes, 1961, p. 1034
Have regard, O Lord, to Thy covenant, and forsake not to the end the souls of Thy poor: arise, O Lord, and judge Thy cause, and forget not the voices of them that seek Thee.
O God, why hast Thou cast us off unto the end: why is Thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of Thy pasture?
Réspice, Dómine, in testamentum tuum et ánimas páuperum tuórum ne derelínquas in finem: exsúrge, Dómine, et júdica causam tuam, et ne obliviscáris voces quæréntium te. Ps. Ut quid, Deus, repulísti in finem: irátus est furor tuus super oves páscuæ tuæ?
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Introit: Respice Domine, for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, from Graduale Romanum, Solesmes, 1961, p. 354 or The Liber Usualis, Solesmes, 1961, p. 1032
The baroque interior of St. John Cantius Church in Chicago. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)Psalm 43:1-5 (Psalmi 42) This metrical version of the text was used for the music:
I will go to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy.
God, plead my cause and judge me the nations ’round me press:
save me from deceitful men,O send to me redress.
In you I take my refuge; why cast me off distressed?
Why must I walk mourn- fully by th’ enemy oppressed?
Send out your light, your truth, Lord; let them be guides to me;
bring me to your holy hill; To where your dwelling be.
My soul, why are you downcast and within me complain?
Wait for God, my savior and help, whom I shall praise again.
![The baroque interior of St. John Cantius [Roman Catholic] Church, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cantius-church-chicago-wide.jpg)
