Salve Festa Dies | Easter Hymn (Violin)

Описание: Salve Festa Dies is one of the oldest and most precious hymns of the Church, reserved for one day only: Easter Sunday. The sequence was written by Venantius Fortunatus before the year 609 AD.


Text:
Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Ecce renascentis testatur gratia mundi
Omnia cum Domino dona redisse suo.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Namque triumphanti post tristia tartara Christo
Undique fronde nemus gramina flore favent.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Qui crucifixus erat Deus, ecce per omnia regnat
Dantque Creatori cuncta creata precem.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Christe, salus rerum, bone Conditor atque Redemptor
Unica progenies ex Deitate Patris.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Qui genus humanum cernens mersisse profundo
Ut hominem eriperes es quoque factus homo.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo
Qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

Funeris exsequias pateris vitae auctor et orbis
Intras mortis iter dando salutis opem.

Translation:

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

Behold, it declares grace for a reborn world
All gifts have returned with their Lord.

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

For indeed, after hellish sorrows, to the triumphing Christ:
grove with green and buds with flower, everywhere give laud.

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

The Crucified One was God, behold He reigns over all things,
and all creation offers prayer to its Creator.

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

O Christ, the salvation of all things,
good Creator and Redeemer, only begotten Son of God the Father.

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

You Who, seeing mankind to have plunged to the deep,
that you might save man, were also made man.

Hail, festal day, venerable of all ages
By which God conquers hell and holds the stars.

That Thou, the author of life and the world, might open
the way of death and the grave by giving hope of salvation.