Ave verum corpus

Hail, True Body

Raminsh, Imant (b. 1943)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Function/Language(s):
Latin

Occasion:

Proper of Time → The Sacred Paschal Triduum → Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, at the Evening Mass
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle A
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle B
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle C
Communion

Publication Information:
Gordon V. Thompson Music (dist. Warner Bros.) — VG-5018 (1983)

Text Information:
Reference: Ascribed to Innocent VI (d. 1362)

Duration: 5:00
Lyrics:

Ave verum corpus natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum immolatum
in cruce pro homine.

Cujus latus perforatum
vero fluxit sanguine.
Esto nobis praegustatum,
mortis in examine.

O clemens, O pie,
O dulcis, Fili Mariae. Amen.

English translation
Hail, true body,
born of the Virgin Mary;
having truly suffered, sacrificed
for man on the cross.

Whose pierced side
flowed with water and blood.
Be for us a foretaste
in the test of death.

O kind, O Loving,
O Sweet Son of Mary. Amen.

Notes: SATB with Soprano, Alto, and Bass divisi.
Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Nov 21, 2021 Last updated: Jan 26, 2022