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).

Settings by composers

• Caspar Ett ATTB (vv. 1 & 7 only)
• Mariano Garau SATB
• Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki SATB (Odd verses)
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia SATB
• 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)
• Johann Stadlmayr SATB or SAAB
• Johannes Tauler SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Anonymous — Jesu, Redemptor
• Johann Michael Haydn — Jesu redemptor omnium (Rex gloriose martyrum) MH 329
• Giacomo Antonio Perti — Inno e responsi pel santo Natale a 4 voci con violini
• Valentin Rathgeber — Jesu redemptor omnium, Op. XI, No. 1
• Remi Studer — Jesu Redemptor omnium
• Johannes Tauler — Jesu Redemptor omnium

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.