Sunday, March 24, 2024

"Komm, Heiliger Geist, erfüll" (#133)

German text in the Gesangbuch:
Komm, Heiliger Geist, erfüll die Herzen deiner Gläubigen
und entzünd in ihnen das Feuer deiner göttlichen Liebe,
der du durch Mannigfaltigkeit der Zungen
die Völker der ganzen Welt versammelt hast
in Einigkeit des Glaubens.
Halleluja.  :,:

Verdeutschung d. latein. Antiphone:  Veni Sancte Spiritus.
My prose translation:
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Your believers
And ignite in them the fire of Your divine love,
You Who through the diversity of tongues
Have assembled the peoples of the whole world
In the unity of faith.
Hallelujah.  :,:

German translation of the Latin antiphon:  Veni Sancte Spiritus.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book.  According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody."  I don't know the melody, so I might have the line breaks in the wrong places.