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Christus factus est is from Philippians 2.8–9. Listen to Anton Bruckner's 1884 setting (WAB #11) and keep an ear out for which word he most emphasizes and repeats above all others. The piece is in this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4JCzX9CR9nIhjm7A5Vsfzq?si=b1b23b59a22c468f So
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The Polish recording featuring Stefania Woytowicz is still the best rendition of Henryk Górecki's Symfonia pieśni żałosnych (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Symphony No. 3, Opus 36, 1976. Here is the 2nd movement, Lento e largo tranquillissimo based on the text by Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna, age 18, who scratched
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Text from the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed as approved by the Council of Trent 1546. A standard in choral repertoire is the 8-part setting from the Credo (Creed) from the Missa Sancti Christophori (Mass of St. Christopher) by Antonio Lotti, early 1700s. So that you may follow along
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The four main lines of Ave Verum Corpus originate at least from the 1300s, attributed to Étienne Aubert, better known as Pope Innocent VI. Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine; Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine: Cuius latus perforatum, unda fluxit sanguine; Esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine.
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Here is a short excerpt from the Song of Simeon in Luke 2.29–32 that Arvo Pärt set in 2001 — so that you may follow along as you listen to the music (in this playlist), here's the literal word-for-word translation: Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, Now dismiss
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So that you may follow along as you listen to the music, here's the literal word-for-word translation of the refrain from: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, 1st Nocturn, Feria (Maundy Thursday) Lectio I, Beth (B) by Thomas Tallis 1560s. Ierusalem, Ierusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return to
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Text from Psalm 51. On Spotify, my favorite rendition of Gregorio Allegri's mid-1600s (pub. 1771, alt. 1880s) setting is The Tallis Scholars, but on Youtube it's the Clare College performance that by the looks of the hairstyles and video quality is from the late 1900s (though
Translation
So that you may follow along as you listen to the music, here's the literal word-for-word translation of Lamentations 1.12. My favorite setting is by Pablo Casals 1932, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4JCzX9CR9nIhjm7A5Vsfzq?si=b1b23b59a22c468f O vos omnes qui transitis per viam: O you all who
an outward sign of an inward reality
Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent which lasts 46 days leading up to the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. In biblical times, ashes — the result of humans burning something — were used as a cultural sign of: • distress in the wake of traumatic stress — “Tamar
Biblical Anthropology
When we talk smack about each other, are we doing it for God? . . . Will vitriol be a convincing apologetic?
Translation
This is the text of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Racine, Opus 11. 1 Verbe, égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance, Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux ; De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence, Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux ! O Word, equal to the
Aligning with God's Truth
Here's an abbreviation of the Athanasian Creed from the late 400s CE, arranged as a responsive affirmation of faith, based on the translation published by the Christian Reformed Church in 1988. Not nearly as well known as the Nicene Creed (c.381) and the Apostles Creed (c.714)
