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Matthew 25:21 [Latin: Matthew 25:21] – Good and faithful servant, because you have been faithful with a few things, I will set you over many things: enter into the joy of the Lord your God.

Serve bone et fidelis, quia in pauca fuisti, supra multa te constituam: intra in gaudium Domini Dei tui.

The Inspiration of Saint Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Inspiration of Saint Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Serve bone et fidelis, from Novae aliquot, ad 2 voces cantiones (1577), motet composed by Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

Duo No. 10: Serve bone

Performed by Ensemble l’Echelle

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Psalm 21:5 [Latin: Psalmi 20:6] – His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him.

Magna est glória ejus in salutári tuo: glóriam et magnum decórem impónes super eum, Dómine.

King David Playing the Harp (1622) by Gerard van Honthorst. His glory is great in thy salvation...
King David Playing the Harp (1622) by Gerard van Honthorst

Communion: Magna est gloria ejus [or eius], for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. Music published in 1611 as part of Communiones totius anni, and written by Polish composer Mikolaj Zielenski (c. 1585 – after 1611).

Communiones totius anni: No. 54. In festo S. Matthaei Apostoli et Evangelistae: Magna est...

Performed by Collegium Zielenski

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Psalm 124:7-8 [Latin: Psalmi 123:7,8] – Our soul is escaped as a bird [or “sparrow”] out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est, de laqueo venantium; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus. Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit caelum et terram.

A bird caught in a mist net in Portugal. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of a fowler's snare, the psalmist says.
A bird caught in a mist net for bird banding in Portugal. Photo by Júlio Reis via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5

Anima nostra sicut passer, from Musica quinque vocum liber primus (1539), motet composed by Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560)

Anima Nostra Sicut Passer

Performed by Beauty Farm

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Psalm 5:8, 4:8b – Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight [“plain” in music lyrics] before my face.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

"Lead me, Lord ... make thy way straight" Photo M.L.W. (User:WVhybrid) Fall of ’04 bicycle tour of WV. | CC BY 2.5
Photo M.L.W. (User:WVhybrid) Fall of ’04 bicycle tour of WV. | CC BY 2.5

Lead me, Lord, extract from Praise the Lord, O my soul (1861), composed by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)

08 Anthem: Lead Me, Lord Samuel Wesley (1810-1876)

Sung by choir of Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana

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