Justorum animae (Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae [London, 1605])

The Souls of the Just

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SSATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Function/Language(s):
Propers → Offertory Antiphon
Latin

Occasion:
Proper of Time → The Weeks in Ordinary Time → Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time → Cycle A
Proper of Time → The Weeks in Ordinary Time → Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time → Cycle B
Proper of Time → The Weeks in Ordinary Time → Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time → Cycle C
Proper of Saints → All Saints (November 1)
Proper of Saints → The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day) (November 2)
Masses for the Dead

Publication Information:
Oxford University Press — TCM 103 (1988)
ISBN 0-19-352204-7

Text Information:
Reference: Wisdom 3:1-3, Offertory, Solemnity of All Saints

Lyrics:

Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt,
et non tanget illos tormentum mortis.
Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori,
illi autem sunt in pace.

English translation
The souls of the just are in the hand of God,
and no torment shall touch them.
They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead . . .
But they are in peace.

Notes: Liber Usualis, 1974 Graduale Romanum, (and Gregorian Missal): all say “malitiae” where the Byrd setting says “mortis.”
Submitted by: Brian Luckner Added: Mar 4, 2022 Last updated: Dec 13, 2022