O Lord, you are the light in the darkness,
Creator of all of the elements,
Forgiver of our sins;
O Lord, may your great mercy be on us
as we seek you with our whole heart.
We hear of your majesty, O Lord, in the morning.
Blot out our sins,
for nothing is hidden from you,
who lives and reigns,
one God, now and forever.
Amen.
Source: Antiphonary of Bangor, ninth century
Source of this version: Translated and reworked from the Latin text for A Collection of Prayers.
© 2016 Paul C. Stratman
Translation of Prayer “Tu es, Domine, illuminator caliginum / O Lord, you are the light in the darkness,” by Paul C. Stratman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please contact for any commercial usage.
Original in Latin:
38. Ad matutinam.
Tu es, Domine, illuminator caliginum, conditorque elementorum, remissor criminum; misericordia tua, Domine, magna est super eos qui te toto corde requirunt. Majestas tua, Domine, mane nos exaudiat, et deleat delicta nostra quae tibi non sunt abdita, Qui regnas, &c.
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