Jesu Redemptor Omnium

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Sat, 2011/01/15 - 4:14pm
PDF version
ID: 
365
Can be Found in
Book: 
Liber Usualis 1961 ed.
Page: 
365
Composition Date: 
6th Cen
Composer: 
Unknown
Arrangers / Editors: 
Unknown
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Vespers Hymn
Proper Liturgical Time: 
In Nativitate Domini
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Votive: 
F
Performance Time: 
2 min 30 sec
Composition Type: 
Hymn
Texture: 
Monophonic
Voices: 
Unison
Language: 
Latin
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Gregorian Tone: 
1.
Lyrics: 

1 Jesu, Redemptor omnium, Quem lucis ante originem Parem paternæ gloriæ Pater supremus edidit.
2 Tu lumen, et splendor Patris, Tu spes perennis omnium, Intende quas fundunt preces Tui per orbem servuli.
3 Memento, rerum Conditor, Nostri quod olim corporis, Sacrata ab alvo Virginis Nascendo, formam sumpseris.
4 Testatur hoc præsens dies, Currens per anni circulum, Quod solus e sinu Patris Mundi salus adveneris.
5 Hunc astra, tellus, æquora, Hunc omne quod cœlo subest, Salutis Auctorem novæ Novo salutat cantico.
6 Et nos, beata quos sacri Rigavit unda sanguinis; Natalis ob diem tui Hymni tributum solvimus.
7 Jesus, tibi sit gloria, Qui natus es de Virgine, Cum Patre, et almo Spiritu In sempiterna sæcula.

Translated Lyrics: 

1. Jesus, the Ransomer of man,   Who, ere created light began,   Didst from the sovereign Father spring,   His power and glory equalling.
2. The Father’s Light and Splendor Thou,   Their endless Hope to Thee that bow;   Accept the prayers and praise to-day   That through the world Thy servants pay.
3. Salvation’s Author, call to mind   How, taking form of humankind,   Born of a Virgin undefiled,   Thou in man’s flesh becam’st a Child.
4. Thus testifies the present day,   Through every year in long array,   That Thou, salvation’s source alone,   Proceededst from the Father’s throne.
5. The heavens above, the rolling main   And all that earth’s wide realms contain,   With joyous voice now loudly sing   The glory of their new-born King.
6. And we who, by Thy precious Blood   From sin redeemed, are marked for God,   On this the day that saw Thy birth,   Sing the new song of ransomed earth.
7. O Lord, the Virgin-born, to Thee   Eternal praise and glory be,   Whom with the Father we adore   And Holy Ghost forevermore.