Laudamus te

We praise you

 

We praise you,

we bless you,

we adore you,

we glorify you.

 

Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten

I will follow you likewise with joyful steps

 

I will follow you likewise with joyful steps

And will not let you go,

My life, my light.

Promote the course [of my life of faith]

And do not cease

Drawing, pushing, imploring me yourself.

 

Erbarme dich, mein Gott

Have mercy, my God

 

Have mercy, my God,

for the sake of my tears!

Look here, heart and eyes

weep bitterly before you.

Have mercy, have mercy!

 

Am Abend, da es kühle war…Mache dich, mein Herze, rein

In the evening, when it was cool…Make yourself pure, my heart

 

In the evening, when it was cool,

Adam's fall was made apparent;

in the evening the Savior bowed himself down.

In the evening the dove came back,

bearing an olive leaf in its mouth.

O lovely time! O evening hour!

The pact of peace with God has now been made,

since Jesus has completed his Cross.

His body comes to rest,

Ah! dear soul, ask,

go, have them give you the dead Jesus,

O salutary, O precious remembrance!

 

Make yourself pure, my heart,

I want to bury Jesus myself.

For from now on he shall have in me,

forever and ever,

his sweet rest.

World, get out, let Jesus in!

 

So ist mein Jesu nun gefangen

Thus my Jesus is now captured

 

Thus my Jesus is now captured.

Leave him, stop, don't bind him! 

Moon and light

for sorrow have set,

since my Jesus is captured.

They take him away, he is bound.

 

Christe eleison

Christ, have mercy

 

Christ, have mercy.

 

Laudate Dominum

Praise the Lord all nations

 

Praise the Lord all nations,

Praise Him all ye people

For his merciful kindness is great toward us,

And the truth of the Lord endureth forever.

 

Domine Deus

Lord God

 

Lord God, heavenly king, 

God the Father almighty,
Lord Jesus Christ, 

the only begotten Son.
Lord God, Lamb of God, 

Son of the Father.

 

Benedictus (Mozart, Schubert & Saint-Saëns Settings)

Blessed

 

Blessed is he who comes 

in the name of the Lord,

Osanna in excelsis.

Hosannah in the highest.

 

Hostias

Sacrifice

 

Sacrifice and prayer to You,

in praise we offer:

receive for those souls

whom today we commemorate. 

Allow them, Lord, to pass from death to life, 

which once to Abraham You promised and to his seed. 

 

Pie Jesu Domine

Holy Jesus Lord

 

Holy Jesus Lord,

Give them rest, 

eternal rest.

 

Recordare

Remember

 

Remember, kind Jesus,

my salvation caused your suffering;

do not forsake me on that day.

 

Faint and weary you have sought me,

redeemed me, suffering on the cross;

may such great effort not be in vain.

 

Righteous judge of vengeance,

grant me the gift of absolution

before the day of retribution.

 

I moan as one who is guilty:

owning my shame with a red face;

suppliant before you, Lord.

You, who absolved Mary,

and listened to the thief,

give me hope also.

 

My prayers are unworthy,

but, good Lord, have mercy,

and rescue me from eternal fire.

 

Provide me a place among the sheep,

and separate me from the goats,

guiding me to Your right hand.