Sálve Fésta Díes

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Wed, 2011/05/18 - 4:20pm
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ID: 
2027
Can be Found in
Book: 
Cantus Selecti
Page: 
59*
Composition Date: 
Unknown
Composer: 
Unknown
Arrangers / Editors: 
CMAA - Parish Book of Chant
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Additional Music at Mass
Processional
For the Offertory
For the Communion of the Faithful
Recessional
Processions
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Paschalis Temporis (Eastertide/Paschaltide)
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Votive: 
F
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Monophonic
Voices: 
Unison
Language: 
Latin
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Gregorian Tone: 
4.
Lyrics: 

1. Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet
2. Ecce renascentis testatur gratia mundi Omnia cum Domino dona redisse suo
3. Namque triumphanti post tristia tartara Christo Undique fronde nemus gramina flore favent
4. Qui crucifixus erat Deus, ecce per omnia regnat Dantque Creatori cuncta creata precem
5. Christe, salus rerum, bone Conditor atque Redemptor Unica progenies ex Deitate Patris
6. Qui genus humanum cernens mersisse profundo Ut hominem eriperes es quoque factus homo
7. Funeris exsequias pateris vitae auctor et orbis Intras mortis iter dando salutis opem

Translated Lyrics: 

1. Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages By which God conquers hell and holds the stars
2. Behold, it declares grace for a reborn world All gifts have returned with their Lord.
3. For indeed, after hellish sorrows, to the triumphing Christ: grove with green and buds with flower, everywhere give laud.
4. The Crucified One was God, behold He reigns over all things, and all creation offers prayer to its Creator.
5. O Christ, the salvation of all things, good Creator and Redeemer, only begotten Son of God the Father.
6. You Who, seeing mankind to have plunged to the deep, that you might save man, were also made man.
7. That Thou, the author of life and the world, might open the way of death and the grave by giving hope of salvation.