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Here's my translation of excerpts from Romans chapter 8 for a responsive creed. There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his own Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Therefore you have
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4 Be miserable in the Lord always! Again I say, be miserable. 5 Let your harshness show in your treatment of all people. The Lord is far away. 6 Be anxious about everything. Pray to God about nothing. Be ungrateful to God. 7 Then turmoil — something we all understand — will
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When it comes to looking for a functional/dynamic equivalent translation of the "love" chapter — perhaps for reading at a wedding where lots of Nones/Remixed may be in attendance — the 1972 J. B. Phillips version is actually quite good but I do have several concerns listed here,
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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
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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 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
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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