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This 6th century hymn is the traditional hymn for Vespers during the Christmas season. In Pope Urban VIII's 1629 revision of the Breviary hymns to make them fit classical forms, the hymn was altered and known as Iesu, Redemptor Omnium. The original text of the hymn has been restored in the current liturgy and appears below.
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| CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,1 |
JESU, the Father's only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, of God most high, begotten all ineffably. |
| Tu lumen, tu splendor Patris, tu spes perennis omnium, intende quas fundunt preces tui per orbem servuli. |
The Father's Light and Splendor Thou their endless Hope to Thee that bow: accept the prayers and praise today that through the world Thy servants pay. |
| Salutis auctor, recole quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris.2 |
Salvation's author, call to mind how, taking the form of humankind, born of a Virgin undefiled, Thou in man's flesh becamest a Child. |
| Hic praesens testatur dies, currens per anni circulum, quod a solus sede Patris mundi salus adveneris;3 |
Thus testifies the present day Through every year in long array, that Thou, salvation's source alone proceedest from the Father's Throne. |
| Hunc caelum, terra, hunc mare, hunc omne quod in eis est, auctorem adventus tui laudat exsultans cantico.4 |
Whence sky, and stars, and sea's abyss, and earth, and all that therein is, shall still, with laud and carol meet, the Author of thine Advent greet. |
| Nos quoque, qui sancto tuo redempti sumus sanguine, ob diem natalis tui hymnum novum concinimus.5 |
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. |
| Iesu, tibi sit gloria, qui natus es de Virgine, cum Patre et almo Spiritu, in sempiterna saecula. Amen. |
All honor, laud, and glory be, O Iesu, Virgin-born, to Thee; whom with the Father we adore, and Holy Ghost forevermore. Amen. |
| Latin from the Liturgia Horarum, Tr cento from J. M. Neale (1818-1866). Changes made by Pope Urban VIII in 1632 to the Roman Breviary: 1 Iesu, Redemptor omnium/quem lucis ante originem/ parem Paternae gloriae/ Pater supremus edidit. 2 Memento, rerum Conditor/ nostri quod olim corporis/ sacrata ab alvo Virginis/ nascendo, formam sumpseris. 3 Testatur hoc praesens dies/ currens per anni circulum/ quod solus e sinu Patris/ Mundi salus adveneris. 4 Hunc astra, tellus, aequora,/ hunc omne, quod caelo subest,/ salutis Auctorem novae/ novo salutat cantico. 5 Et nos, beata quos sacri/ rigavit unda sanguinis/ natalis ob diem tui/ hymni tributum solvimus |
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