“In ieiunio et fletu” by Thomas Tallis
A commentary on this week’s music by Dr. James T. Gerber, Music Associate
Text:
In ieiunio et fletu orabant sacerdotes:
Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo,
et ne des hereditatem tuam in perditionem.
Inter vestibulum et altare plorabant sacerdotes,
dicentes: Parce populo tuo.
Translation:
In fasting and weeping the priests prayed:
Spare, O Lord, spare thy people,
and give not thine inheritance to perdition.
Between the porch and the altar the priests wept,
saying: Spare thy people.
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