Venite populi (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Latin text

Venite, populi, venite

de longe venite,

et admiramini gentes.

Venite, populi, venite,

an alia natio tam grandis,

quae habet Deos appropinquantes sibi,

sicut Deus noster adest nobis,

cujus in ara veram praesentiam

contemplamur jugiter per fidem vivam,

an alia natio tam grandis?

O sors cunctis beatior,

O sors sola fidelium,

quibus panis fractio

et calicis communio

est in auxilium.

Eja ergo epulemur

in azymis veritatis et sinceritatis,

eja ergo epulemur

et inebriemur vino laetitiae sempiternae;

an alia natio tam grandis?

Venite, populi, venite.

English translation

Come, O peoples, come;

come from afar,

and marvel, O races.

Come, O peoples, come;

is there any nation so great

that it has its gods so near to it

as our God is near to us,

whose true presence on his altar

we continually contemplate through living faith:

is there any nation so great?

O fate more blessed than all others,

O fate only of the faithful

for whom breaking bread

and sharing the cup

is a help

Therefore let us feast

on the unleavened bread of truth and sincerity,

Let us feast, therefore,

and become drunk with wine of eternal joy;

is there any nation so great?

Come, O peoples, come.