Jesu Redemptor omnium

General information

Office Hymn at Vespers during the Christmas season. It was revised as Jesu redemptor omnium in the 17c., previously having been known as Christe Redemptor omnium, ex Patre. Recent Anglican & Lutheran hymnals feature Gilbert Doan's version "O Savior of our fallen race" (ç1978).

Notes on selected settings

Caspar Ett ATTB (vv. 1 & 7 only) Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki SATB (Odd verses) Josquin SATB (v. 2 only) Josef Ohnewald SATB (I-vv. 1-2; II-v. 1)

Diego Ortiz SATTB (vv. 2 & 7) Oreste Ravanello SSA (odd verses) Josef Ignaz Schnabel SATB (vv. 1-2,7)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Jesu, Redemptor  Latin SATB
• Johann Melchior Dreyer — Hymni brevissimi, Op.5 No.1-12  Latin SATB
• Caspar Ett — Jesu, redemptor omnium  Latin ATTB
• Mariano Garau — Jesu Redemptor omnium  Latin SATB
• Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki — Jesu redemptor omnium  Latin SATB
• Johann Michael Haydn — Jesu redemptor omnium (Rex gloriose martyrum) MH 329  Latin SATB
• Josquin des Prez — Sanctus D'ung aultre amer - Tu lumen  Latin SATB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia — Jesu Redemptor omnium  Latin SATB
• Josef Ohnewald — Hymni vespertini  Latin SATB
• Diego Ortiz — Tu lumen et splendor  Latin SATB
• Giacomo Antonio Perti — Inno e responsi pel santo Natale a 4 voci con violini  Latin SATB
• Valentin Rathgeber — Jesu redemptor omnium, Op. XI, No. 1  Latin SATB
• Oreste Ravanello — Jesu Redemptor omnium, op. 66/4  Latin SSA
• Josef Ignaz Schnabel — 4 Hymni vespertini  Latin SATB
• Johann Stadlmayr — Jesu redemptor omnium  Latin SATB, SAAB
• Remi Studer — Jesu Redemptor omnium  Latin SATB
• Johannes Tauler — Jesu Redemptor omnium  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Latin text 1. Jesu, Redémptor ómnium, Quem lucis ante originem, Parem patérnæ glóriæ Pater suprémus édidit. 2. Tu lumen, et splendor Patris, Tu spes perénnis ómnium, Inténde quas fundunt preces Tui per orbem sérvuli. 3. Meménto, rerum Cónditor, Nostri quod olim córporis, Sacráta ab alvo Vírginis Nascéndo, formam súmpseris. 4. Testátur hoc praesens dies, Currens per anni circulum, Quod solus e sinu Patris Mundi salus advéneris. 5. Hunc astra, tellus, aéqoura, Hunc omne quo caelo subest, Salútis auctórem novae Novo salútat cántico. 6. Et nos, beáta quos sacri Rigávit unda sánguinis, Natális ob diem tui, Hymni tribútum sólvimus. 7. Jesu, tibi sit glória Qui natus es de Vírgine, Cum Patre et almo Spíritu, In sempitérna saécula. Amen.

English translation 1. Jesu, the Ransomer of man, Who, ere created light began, Didst from the sovereign Father spring, His heavenly glory equaling. 2. 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. 3. Salvation's Author, call to mind How, taking form of humankind, Born of a Virgin undefiled, Thou in man's flesh became a Child. 4. Thus testifies the present day, Through every year in long array, That Thou, salvation's source alone, Proceeded 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. Amen.