Tier 3CommentaryHymn
Columba Aspexit
St. Hildegard of Bingen · 12th century
Sequence by St. Hildegard of Bingen on St. Maximin — Latin text and music public domain.
In Hoc Signo Vinces
The Scriptorium
Teaching, liturgy, commentary, and the margins — each marked by authority so nothing is confused with the Magisterium.
15 works
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Dies Irae
Traditional (attributed to Thomas of Celano) · 13th century
Sequence of the Requiem — Latin with William Josiah Irons's public-domain English. Day of wrath; judgment and mercy before the throne.
Tier 3CommentaryHymn
Flos Carmeli
Traditional (attributed to St. Simon Stock) · 13th century
Carmelite sequence to Our Lady of Mount Carmel — Latin with public-domain English; the Scriptorium door into the brown scapular devotion.
Tier 3CommentaryHymn
O Euchari
St. Hildegard of Bingen · 12th century
Sequence by St. Hildegard of Bingen for St. Eucharius — Latin text and music public domain.
Tier 3CommentaryHymn
O Virga Ac Diadema
St. Hildegard of Bingen · 12th century
Sequence by St. Hildegard of Bingen — Latin text and music both hers, both public domain.
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Qui habitat — Tract for the First Sunday of Lent
Traditional (Gregorian) · earliest Gregorian manuscripts
The Gregorian tract for the First Sunday of Lent, setting Psalm 90 — the psalm of protection, the terror of the night, and the noonday devil.
Tier 3CommentaryTreatise
Scivias
St. Hildegard of Bingen · 1141–1151
Hub for St. Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias — Know the Ways — visionary theology from a Doctor of the Church.
Tier 1CanonTreatise
Summa Theologiae
St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265–1274
Hub page for Aquinas's Summa — the masterwork of medieval theology, indexed by part and question.
Tier 1CanonTreatise
Summa Theologiae I, Q.2, A.3 — Whether God exists
St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265–1274
Aquinas's five ways — the classical demonstration that God exists, from the Summa Theologiae.
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Te Deum
Traditional (Ambrosian) · 4th–5th century
Ambrosian hymn of praise — Latin with traditional public-domain English. Thanksgiving on feasts, after victories of grace, and outside penitential seasons.
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Ubi Caritas
Traditional · 8th–12th century
Mandatum antiphon of Holy Thursday — Latin with traditional public-domain English. Where charity and love are, God is there.
Tier 2LiturgyDevotional
Vade Retro Satana — The Inscription on the St. Benedict Medal
Traditional · by 1415
Every letter on the St. Benedict medal, decoded — the Latin, the translation, and where the formula came from.
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Veni Creator Spiritus
Traditional (attributed to Rabanus Maurus) · 9th century
Hymn to the Holy Spirit — Latin with Edward Caswall's public-domain English. Pentecost, ordinations, and whenever the Spirit must be invoked over a work.
Tier 3CommentaryHymn
Veni Veni Emmanuel
Traditional (O Antiphons) · 12th–18th century
Advent hymn from the O Antiphons — Latin with John Mason Neale's public-domain English ("O Come, O Come, Emmanuel").
Tier 2LiturgyHymn
Victimae Paschali Laudes
Wipo of Burgundy (attr.) · 11th century
Easter sequence — Latin with traditional public-domain English. Death and life in combat; Mary at the tomb; Christ risen, victor King.