Festum nunc celebre

General information

Hymn for Ascension by Rabanus Maurus (c.776-856).

Settings by composers

• Anonymous
  • I ATB
  • II STTT
  • III STT

Original text and translations

Latin text Festum nunc celebre magnaque gaudia compellunt animos carmina promere cum Christus solium scandit ad arduum cælorum pius arbiter. Conscendit jubilans lætus ad æthera Sanctorum populus prædicat inclitum Concinit pariter Angelicus chorus Victoris boni gloriam. Qui scandens superos, vincula vinxerat, Donans terrigenis munera plurima Districtus rediet arbiter omnium, Qui mitis modo transiit. Oramus Domine, Conditor inclite, Devotos famulos respice, protege: Ne nos livor edax dæmonis obruat, Demergat vel inferos Ut cum flammivoma nube reverteris, Occulta hominum pandere judicans: Ne des supplicia horrida noxiis: Sed justis bona præmia Præsta hoc Genitor optime, maxime Hoc tu Nate Dei: & bone Spiritus, Regnans perpetuo fulgida Trinitas Per cuncta pie sæcula. Amen.   German translation

English translation