Day: February 1, 2007

Everything Else, ,

Faithful people

Fr. Jim Tucker points to a YouTube of Laetabundus in Sequence for Candlemas. Laetabundus is a Presentation Sequence normally attributed to St. Bernard. I found the English translation from The Dominican Missal in Latin and English, Revised Edition, Blackfriars Publications, Oxford, 1948.

Faithful people,
Sweeten all your song with gladness.
Alleluia.

Matchless maiden
Bringeth forth the Prince of princes:
O! the marvel.

Virgin compasseth a man,
Yea, the angel of the plan:
Star the Dayspring.

Day that sunset shall not close,
Star that light on all bestows,
Ever cloudless.

As the star, light crystalline,
Mary hath a Son divine
In her likeness.

Star that shining grows not dim,
Nor his Mother, bearing him,
Less a maiden.

The great tree of Lebanon
Hyssop’s lowliness puts on
In our valley;

And the Word of God Most High
Self-imprisoned doth lie
In our body.

So Isaias sang of old,
So the Synagogue doth hold,
But the sunrise finds her cold
Hard and blinded.

Of her own she will not mark,
Let her to the gentiles hark;
For the Sybil’s verses dark
Tell of these things.

Make haste, O luckless one,
Give ear to the saints bygone:
Why perish utterly,
O race undone?

He whom thy seers foretell
Born is in Israel:
Mary’s little Son, O mark him well.
Alleluia.

Everything Else

Vista

I’ve been upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007 over the past 24 hours. The upgrade itself went fairly well.

I checked compatibility beforehand, removed programs that were in conflict, plus some others likely to cause problems, and ran the Windows upgrade first. The following problems were encountered:

  • I have a dual monitor setup. The upgrade messed up the monitor order.
  • Internet Explorer does not work – at all. It won’t even start. Luckily I use Firefox. If I didn’t have Firefox my ability to do anything on the Internet would be at a standstill.

The upgrade took quite a while to accomplish. The Vista interface is pleasant albeit a little slow.

I pretty much agree with Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s article Vista’s pretty, but it’s a shameless Mac OS X imitator from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. I look forward to updating our Macs to Leopard.