DIVINUM OFFICIUM Hymn

Hymnus: Salutis humanae Sator

Ascensiontide - Lauds Hymn

Proper text for the Ascension of Our Lord, celebrated forty days after Easter. This Class I feast commemorates Christ's bodily return to the Father's right hand. The Office texts emphasize Christ's glorified humanity entering heaven, his ongoing intercession as High Priest, and the promise of his return in glory.

LATINE
Salutis humanae Sator, / Jesu, voluptas cordium, / Orbis redempti Conditor, / Et casta lux amantium. // Qua victus es clementia, / Ut nostra ferres crimina, / Mortem subires innocens, / A morte nos ut tolleres! // Perrumpis infernum chaos; / Vinctis catenas detrahis; / Victor triumpho nobili / Ad dexteram Patris sedes. // Te cogat indulgentia, / Ut damna nostra sarcias, / Tuique vultus compotes / Dites beato lumine. // Tu dux ad astra, et semita, / Sis meta nostris cordibus, / Sis lacrimarum gaudium, / Sis dulce vitae praemium. Amen.
ENGLISH
Hail, thou who man's Redeemer art, / Jesu, the joy of every heart; / Great Maker of the world's wide frame, / And purest love of purest flame. // What pity stirred thy heart to trace / The ruined steps of human race? / So fallen! Thy dying love alone / Could for the crime of sin atone. // Let earth, and sea, and sky, and air / Thy great redeeming love declare; / For, ransomed, cleansed, and saved by Thee, / Thy glorious praise our song shall be. // O Jesu, for all time to be / Our paschal joy, from sin set free; / To those who from death's realm have burst / As Thou Thyself from dust to dust. // All honour, laud, and glory be, / O Jesu, Virgin-born, to Thee; / All glory, as is ever meet, / To Father and to Paraclete. Amen.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Ascensiontide - Lauds Hymn
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
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