Jetzt ist die Zeit

"" is a Christian hymn with words by Alois Albrecht and music by Ludger Edelkötter. The song of the genre has appeared in German hymnals and songbooks.

History

Alois Albrecht a former vicar general of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg, wrote the words of the hymn and the music educator was its composer. The work has appeared in twelve songbooks.

Text

The text begins with a short refrain, and has eight stanzas. That refrain claims the critical time to be now, and that we do or miss it today. The premise is the apocalyptic Second Coming of Jesus, and the stanzas give details of questions his audience of siblings will have to face then, disqualifying queries that do not matter. In the first stanza, the questions that will not come are "Was hast du gespart?" and "Was hast du alles besessen?", but: "Was hast du geschenkt?" and "Wen hast du geschätzt?" Each stanza but the last ends with "um meinetwillen".