Luke 1:28,42 [Latin] – Hail Mary, full of grace: the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Opening of a primer showing alphabet, Ave Maria ("Hail Mary")
Opening of a primer showing alphabet, Ave Maria (“Hail Mary”)

AVE, María, grátia plena: Dóminus tecum: benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventrís tui.

Offertory: Ave Maria (5v), composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Palestrina: Ave Maria 5vv (Offertorium)

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“I Thirst” The Vinegar Given to Jesus – James Tissot

Psalm 69:20-21 [Latin Vulgate: Psalm 68:21-22]

20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Improperium expectavit cor meum et miseriam et sustinui qui simul mecum contristaretur et non fuit; consolantem me quaesivi et non inveni. Et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto.


Improperium expectavit cor meum (1593) in Offertoria totius anni, no. 24, composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Palestrina: Improperium exspectavit cor meum - Sixteen

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Ad te levavi animam meam
Verses 1 to 7a of Psalm 25 (Psalmus 24) in the 12th-century St. Albans Psalte

Psalm 25:1-3a [Latin]

1 Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Ad te levavi animam meam, Deus meus, in te confido: non erubescam neque irrideant me inimici mei. Etenim universi qui te expectant non confundentur.


Ad te levavi animam meam (1593), from Offertoria totius anni, no. 1; composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Ad te levavi (Palestrina)

Performed by The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park

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Early third century depiction of eucharistic bread and fish, Catacomb of San Callisto, Rome.
Early third century depiction of eucharistic bread and fish, Catacomb of San Callisto, Rome.

John 6:48-50 [Latin]

48 I am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.


Ego sum panis vivus (1587) in Motectorum liber secundus, 4vv, no. 9 – by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Palestrina - Ego sum panis vivus

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