Liliata rutilantium

In Telemachus Stephen remembers how "all prayed on their knees" around his mother's deathbed, and he recalls words from that prayer: "Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat" (“May the troop of confessors, glowing like lilies, surround you. May the choir of virgins, jubilant, take you in”). His thoughts return to these words at the end of the same chapter, and also in Scylla and Charybdis, Circe, and Ithaca.

John Hunt 2016

The Roman Ritual, in a facing-page Latin-English 1950 edition. Source: www.rubylane.com.

The Layman's Missal and Prayer Book. Source: wdtprs.com.