hymn · medieval
Flos Carmeli
Traditional (attributed to St. Simon Stock) · 13th century · tr. Traditional English liturgical
Flos Carmeli is the Carmelite sequence to Our Lady of Mount Carmel — flower of Carmel, vine blossom-laden, star of the sea. Latin is ancient and public domain; the English follows traditional liturgical renderings. This page is the Scriptorium door into the brown scapular devotion: pray the hymn, then take up the scapular as the Order's armor, not as fashion.
Latin · English
- 1
Flos Carmeli, vitis florigera, splendor caeli, virgo puerpera, singularis.
1Flower of Carmel, tall vine blossom-laden, splendour of heaven, childbearing yet maiden, none equals thee.
- 2
Mater mitis, sed viri nescia, Carmelitis esto propitia, stella maris.
2Mother so tender, whom no man didst know, on Carmel's children thy favours bestow, Star of the Sea.
- 3
Radix Jesse germinans flosculum, nos ad esse tecum in saeculum patiaris.
3Strong stem of Jesse, who bore one bright flower, be ever near us and guard us each hour, who serve thee here.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
July 16 is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Church binds that title to the brown scapular — a sacramental of belonging to Mary under the Carmelite habit's small cloth. Sing Flos Carmeli; then wear what it names.
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