Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this piece, the modern composer Lucy Walker sets to music an ancient text, a Latin hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration. The Chapel's Evensong Singers sang the piece as the opening introit music for a Choral Evensong at Exeter College Chapel on July 25, 2025. The service was one of seven the ensemble sang on their tenth anniversary tour of Oxford, England.
See highlights from the tour at: https://chapel.duke.edu/news/evensong-singers-tenth-anniversary-tour/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Evensong&utm_id=oxford_tour
TEXT
O nata lux de lumine, Jesu redemptor saeculi,
Dignare clemens supplicum laudes precesque sumere.
Qui carne quondam contegi dignatus es pro perditis,
Nos membra confer effici tui beati corporis.
O Light born of Light, Jesus, redeemer of the world,
Mercifully deign to accept the praises and prayers of your suppliants.
O you who once deigned to be hidden in flesh
on behalf of the lost, grant us to be made members of your blessed body.
~ hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration
In this piece, the modern composer Lucy Walker sets to music an ancient text, a Latin hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration. The Chapel's Evensong Singers sang the piece as the opening introit music for a Choral Evensong at Exeter College Chapel on July 25, 2025. The service was one of seven the ensemble sang on their tenth anniversary tour of Oxford, England.
See highlights from the tour at: https://chapel.duke.edu/news/evensong-singers-tenth-anniversary-tour/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Evensong&utm_id=oxford_tour
TEXT
O nata lux de lumine, Jesu redemptor saeculi,
Dignare clemens supplicum laudes precesque sumere.
Qui carne quondam contegi dignatus es pro perditis,
Nos membra confer effici tui beati corporis.
O Light born of Light, Jesus, redeemer of the world,
Mercifully deign to accept the praises and prayers of your suppliants.
O you who once deigned to be hidden in flesh
on behalf of the lost, grant us to be made members of your blessed body.
~ hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration
