This is the Day Whereon the Lord's True Witness / Iste Confessor

All Through the AgesThis is the Day Whereon the Lord's True Witness is a 1902 translation by Fr. John O'Connor (1870-1952) of the Latin hymn, Iste Confessor (see 2nd video). It has been traditionally sung at Vespers and Matins in the Common of Confessors and Bishops. In 1905, Fr. O'Connor's translation was included in Arundel Hymns (#237, p. 448). I have not been able to identify the original tune for This is the Day Whereon the Lord's True Witness that it was published with. An alternative tune that it can be sung to is Rouen (see 1st video). In 1903 O'Connor met G. K. Chesterton and the two became life-long fiends. O'Connor was instrumental in Chesterton's conversion to the Catholic Church. Chesterton's fictional detective, Father Brown was based upon O'Connor. In 1937, after Chesterton's death, Fr. O'Connor recounted their over 30 years of friendship in his book: Father Brown on Chesterton. For an alternative translation see my post: This is the Feast Day of the Lord's True Witness / Iste Confessor Domini Colentes. Tune: Iste Confessor (Rouen) THIS IS THE DAY WHEREON THE LORD'S TRUE WITNESS John O'Connor, 1902 (Public Domain)1. This is the day whereon the Lord’s true witness,Whom all the nations lovingly do honour,Worthy at last was found to wear foreverGlory transcendent.2. Loving, far–seeing, lowly, modest minded,So kept he well an even course unstained,Ever while in his frame of manhood lingeredLife’s fitful breathings.3. Oft hath it been thro’ his sublime deservingPoor human bodies, howsoever stricken,Broke and cast off the bondage of their sickness,Healed Divinely.4. Wherefore to him we raise the solemn chorus,Chanting his praise and his surpassing triumph;So may his pleading help us in the battleAll through the ages.5. Healing and power, grace and beauteous honourAlways be His, who shining in the highest,Ruleth and keepeth all the world’s vast order,One God three Persons.   Gregorian ChantISTE CONFESSOR DOMINI (Public Domain) 1. Iste Confessor Domini colentesQuem pie laudant populi per orbem:Hac die laetus meruit beatasScandere sedes.2. Qui pius, prudens, humilis, pudicus,Sobriam duxit sine labe vitam.Donec humanos animavit auraeSpiritus artus.3. Cujus ob praestans meritum frequenter,Ægra quae passim jacuere membra,Viribus morbi domitis, salutiRestituuntur.  4. Noster hinc illi chorus obsequentem Concinit laudem, celebresque palmas; Ut piis ejus precibus juvemur Omne per ævum.5. Sit salus illi, decus, atque virtus,Qui super cæli solio coruscans,Totius mundi seriem gubernat,Trinus et unus. Amen