Resp. Aspiciens a longe | Gregorian Chant for Advent

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The Great Responsory "Aspiciens a longe" is the first responsory of Matins for the 1st Sunday of Advent. This melody first appears in the Antiphoner of Hartker, circa AD 990-1000. It can be found in current books such as the Processionale Monasticum or the Liber Hymnarius, both from Solesmes, with some slight melodic variances.

Translation:
I look from afar:
and behold, I see the power of God coming,
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Go ye out to meet Him and say:
Tell us if Thou art the One Who is to reign over the people of Israel.

V/ 1. And all the nations and the children of men, the rich and the poor together .

Go ye out to meet Him and say:
Tell us if Thou art the One Who is to reign over the people of Israel.

V/ 2. Look, Who rulest Israel,
Who leadest Joseph like a sheep,
Who sittest upon the cherubim.

Tell us if Thou art the One Who is to reign over the people of Israel.

V/ 3. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, and He shall enter in.
Who is to reign over the people of Israel.

(not included in the original manuscript or recording, but part of the liturgical tradition)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and lo, I see the pow’r of God coming,
and to the Holy Ghost.
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Go ye out to meet him and say:
Tell us if Thou art the One Who is to reign over the people of Israel.


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