Veni sponsa Christi

Veni sponsa Christi is the Magnificat antiphon at Second Vespers from the Common of Virgins. See also Veni sponsa Christi (Philippe Duc) for a somewhat different text.
Also of note are several parody masses:

• Missa Veni sponsa Christi (Manuel Cardoso)
• Missa Veni sponsa Christi (Lupus Hellinck) attributed to Lupus Hellinck or Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin
• Missa Veni Sponsa Christi (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) a 4 (5) on his own motet
• Missa Veni sponsa Christi (Jean Richafort) à 4 (6) on his own motet

Notes on selected settings

Anonymous, Trent 89 SAT Giovanni Paolo Cima A & bc Carlo Gesualdo SSATTB Nicholas Gombert Sigismondo d'India STTTTBB Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger S + continuo Orlando di Lasso

Luca Marenzio SAATB (first two lines) SATB Constanzo Porta Josef Rheinberger Veni sponsa Christi SATB Hymne an die hl. Caecilia SATB Jean Richafort SATTB

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SAT
• Ippolito Baccusi — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATTB
• Agostino Bendinelli — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATTB
• Giacomo Carissimi — Veni Sponsa Christi  Latin SSATTB
• Giovanni Paolo Cima — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin Solo Alto
• Leonora d'Este — Veni sponsa  Latin ATTBB
• Sigismondo d'India — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin STTTTBB
• Baldassare Donato — Veni sponsa  Latin SATTTB
• Andrea Gabrieli — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATB
• Mariano Garau — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATB
• Jacob Handl — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATTB
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin S
• Pieter Maessens — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATTBB
• Luca Marenzio — Veni sponsa Christi a 4  Latin SATB
• Luca Marenzio — Veni sponsa Christi a 5  Latin SAATB
• Agostino Masera — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATB
• Claudio Monteverdi — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SAT
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATB
• Peter Philips — Veni, Sponsa Christi  Latin SSATB
• Josef Rheinberger — 3 4-st. Motetten  German SATB
• Josef Rheinberger — 6 lateinische Hymnen, Op. 58  Latin SATB
• Andrea Rota — Veni sponsa Christi a 5  Latin SATTB
• Simone Stella — Veni Sponsa Christi  Latin SAT
• Tomás Luis de Victoria — Veni sponsa Christi  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Veni sponsa Christi, accipe coronam quam tibi Dominus praeparavit in aeternum pro cujus amore sanguinem tuum fudisti et cum Angelis in paradisum introisti. Veni, electa mea, et ponam in te thronum meum quia concupivit Rex speciem tuam.

English translation Come, bride of Christ, receive the crown which the Lord has prepared for you for all eternity; for whose love you have shed your blood. And you will enter into the Paradise among the angels. Come, O you my chosen one, and I will set my throne within you: so shall the King have pleasure in your beauty.