Christe Redemptor omnium, ex Patre

Christe Redemptor omnium is the incipit to two different Office hymns, Christe Redemptor omnium ex Patre, for Vespers during the Christmas season, and Christe Redemptor omnium, conserva for first and second Vespers of the Feast of All Saints (Nov. 1).

Settings

...Ex Patre" in Nativitatem

• Michel Richard Delalande, S.21 (1690) (5vv & 5 instr.)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Hymni totius anni, 1589 alternatim (odd) SATB, CCAT, SATB, SSATTB
• Christe Redemptor Omnium I (Tomás Luis de Victoria) a 4, alternatim (even)

...conserva tuos" in festo Omniorum Sanctis

• Alonso Dalua Tarazona Hymnarium, c. 1500 a 4
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Hymni totius anni, 1589 page 93 alternatim (odd) SATB, SAT, SATB, SATTB
• Christe Redemptor Omnium II (Tomás Luis de Victoria) a 4, alternatim (even)

Original texts and translations

Christe Redemptor omnium ex Patre

Latin text

1. CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium,
ex Patre, Patris unice,
solus ante principium
natus ineffabiliter,

2. Tu lumen, tu splendor Patris,
tu spes perennis omnium,
intende quas fundunt preces
tui per orbem servuli.

7. Iesu, tibi sit gloria,
qui natus es de Virgine,
cum Patre et almo Spiritu,
in sempiterna saecula. Amen.

In Urban VIII's 1632 Roman Brevary the first verse reads:

1. Iesu, Redemptor omnium quem lucis ante originem parem Paternae gloriae Pater supremus edidit.

English translation JESU, the Father's only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, of God most high, begotten all ineffably. (John Mason Neale, 1818-1866) Christe Redemptor omnium, conserva Latin text CHRISTE, redemptor omnium, conserva tuos famulos, beatae semper Virginis placatus sanctis precibus. Beata quoque agmina caelestium spirituum, praeterita, praesentia, futura mala pellite. (attr. Rabanus Maurus 776-856. 2 of 7 verses) External links Preces latinae: in Nativitatem pro Omnium Sanctorum search results at IMSLP