Ad Mortem Festinamus

We Rush to Death

Ad Mortem Festinamus

I set out to write about worldly contemptScribere proposui de contemptu mundano
So that those living in this age aren’t fooled in vainUt degentes seculi non mulcentur in vano
Now it’s time to riseIam est hora surgere
From the sleep of death’s wrongA sompno mortis pravo
From the sleep of death’s wrongA sompno mortis pravo

Life is short, it will end quicklyVita brevis breviter in brevi finietur
Death comes fast, it fears no oneMors venit velociter quae neminem veretur
Death takes everythingOmnia mors perimit
And shows no mercyEt nulli miseretur
And shows no mercyEt nulli miseretur

We rush to deathAd mortem festinamus
Let’s stop sinningPeccare desistamus
Let’s stop sinningPeccare desistamus

Unless you turn and become like a childNi conversus fueris et sicut puer factus
And change your life to better actionsEt vitam mutaveris in meliores actus
You won’t be able to enterIntrare non poteris
The blessed kingdom of GodRegnum dei beatus
The blessed kingdom of GodRegnum dei beatus

When the trumpet sounds on that final dayTuba cum sonuerit dies crit extrema
And the judge arrives, he’ll call for eternityEt iudex advenerit vocabit sempiterna
The chosen to the homelandElectos in patria
The damned to hellPrescitos ad inferna
The damned to hellPrescitos ad inferna

We rush to deathAd mortem festinamus