Music was hand-engraved by Carl Crosier in 1986; copies exist in the St. Mark’s Cathedral Compline Choir Library.
Lyrics
Christus est stella matutina, qui, nocte saeculi transacta, lucem vitae sanctis promittit et pandit aeternam.
Christ is the morning star, who when the night of this world is past brings to his saints the promise of everlasting life and opens everlasting day.
