Ego sum panis vivus

I Am the Bread of Life

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c. 1525–1594)

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:
Arista — AE 374 (1980)

Text Information:
Reference: John 6:48-50

Duration: 3:00
Lyrics:

Ego sum panis vivus.
Patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto
et mortui sunt.
Hic est panis de coelo descendens,
si quis ex ipso manducaverit, non morietur.

English translation:
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert,
but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.

Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Feb 16, 2022