# The Ascension's own Vespers hymn ("Jesu nostra redémptio") — identical
# text to Matins' own (matins-hymn-ascension.yml) and Lauds' own
# (lauds-hymn-ascension.yml). Live-verified against Divinum Officium
# (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers live query, 2026-05-14 (Ascension
# Day itself).
id: vespers-hymn-ascension
text:
  la: >-
    Jesu nostra redémptio,

    Amor et desidérium,

    Deus Creátor ómnium,

    Homo in fine témporum:


    Quæ te vicit cleméntia,

    Ut ferres nostra crímina,

    Crudélem mortem pátiens,

    Ut nos a morte tólleres!


    Inférni claustra pénetrans,

    Tuos captívos rédimens,

    Victor triúmpho nóbili

    Ad dextram Patris résidens.


    Ipsa te cogat píetas,

    Ut mala nostra súperes

    Parcéndo, et voti cómpotes

    Nos tuo vultu sáties.


    Tu esto nostrum gáudium,

    Qui es futúrus prǽmium,

    Sit nostra in te glória,

    Per cuncta semper sǽcula. Amen.
  en: >-
    Hail, thou who man's Redeemer art,

    Jesu, the joy of every heart;

    Great Maker of the world's wide frame,

    And purest love's delight and flame:


    What nameless mercy thee o'ercame,

    To bear our load of sin and shame?

    For guiltless, thou thy life didst give,

    That sinful erring man might live.


    The realms of woe are forced by thee,

    Its captives from their chains set free;

    And thou, amid thy ransomed train,

    At God's right hand dost victor reign.


    Let mercy sweet with thee prevail,

    To cure the wounds we now bewail;

    Oh, bless us with thy holy sight,

    And fill us with eternal light.


    Our guide, our way to heavenly rest,

    Be thou the aim of every breast;

    Be thou the soother of our tears,

    Our sweet reward above the spheres. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified