O Jesu amabilissime (Giovanni Croce)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2013-03-16). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 101 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: O Jesu amabilissime
Composer: Giovanni Croce
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: AAATTTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: Motetti a otto voce, Venice, 1603
Description: Christ-tide motet.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
O Jesu amabilissime qui servi formam recipis,
Te exoro.
O caeli puer sanctissime qui mundi carnem suscepis,
Te imploro.
O Deus clementissime, ortum lumen de lumine
quasi imber super gramine.
Adoramus te hominem.
Refulsit lux mortalibus.
Defendit pax hominibus.
Refulget in praesepio
iacet in diversorio.
Lux aeterna, pax superna,
Ave sancte Rex Israel,
factus nobis Emanuel,
Sicut praedixit Gabriel.
English translation
O most loving Jesus, who adopts the body of a slave,
I beg of you.
O most holy boy from heaven, who takes on worldly flesh,
I implore you.
O most merciful God, light of light risen
like dew on the grass,
I adore you as a man.
He shines, a light to mortals.
He defends the peace of mankind.
He glitters in the manger
and lies at the inn.
Eternal light, heavenly peace,
Hail holy king of Israel,
Emmanuel, made for us,
As Gabriel foretold.