Cantus Mundi: February 2013

28 February 2013

25 February 2013

Viens, ô Sauveur des nation (Taizé)

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Espere en Dieu (Taizé)

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24 February 2013

Voici venir le seigneur (Taizé)

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Mon âme attend le Seigneur (Taizé)

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Les Béatitudes (Taizé)

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23 February 2013

Každý den Pán mi sílu dává (Taizé)

See also other versions: El Senyor / Meine Hoffnung / In the Lord I'll be ever thankful

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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Meine Hoffnung (Taizé)

German:

Meine Hoffnung und meine Freude,
meine Stärke, mein Licht.
Christus, meine Zuversicht,
auf dich vertrau' ich und fürcht' mich nicht,
auf dich vertrau' ich und fürcht' mich nicht

See also other version: El Senyor / In the Lord I'll be ever thankful / Každý den Pán mi sílu dává

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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In the Lord I'll be ever thankful (Taizé)

English:

In the Lord I'll be ever thankful,
In the Lord I will rejoice!
Look to God, do not be afraid.
Lift up your voices, the Lord is near,
Lift up your voices, the Lord is near.

See also other versions: El Senyor / Meine Hoffnung / Každý den Pán mi sílu dává

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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Souviens-toi de Jésus Christ (Taizé)

Souviens-toi de Jésus Christ
Ressuscite d’entre les morts
Il est notre salut,
Notre gloire éternelle
Si nous mourons avec lui,
Avec lui nous vivons
Si nous souffrons avec lui,
Avec lui nous règnerons
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

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Probudi se (Taizé)

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Comam do Pão (Taizé)

Comam do Pão, bebam do Cálice
Quem vem a mim, não terá fome
Comam do pão,bebam do Cálice
Quem em mim crer, não terá sede

Eu sou o Pão da Vida
O Pão que desceu do Céu.

Se alguém comer deste Pão
Viverá para a eternidade.

O Pão que desceu do Céu
É para dar a Vida ao mundo.

Quem vem a mim não terá fome
Quem crê em mim, não mais terá sede.

Em verdade eu vos digo:
Quem crê em mim tem a vida eterna.

See also the original English version: Eat This Bread / Jesus Christ, Bread of Life

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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Eat This Bread (Taizé)

Refrain:

Eat this bread; drink this cup.
Come to me and never be hungry.
Eat this bread; drink this cup.
Trust in me and you will not thirst.

1. I am the bread of life, the true bread sent from the Father.

2. Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but this is the bread come down from heaven.

3. Eat my flesh and drink my blood, and I will raise you up on the last day.

4. Anyone who eats this bread, will live forever.

5. If you believe and eat this bread, you will have eternal life.

See also alternate English version: Jesus Christ, Bread of Life

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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22 February 2013

Sfinte Dumnezeule (Taizé)

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Što oko ne vidje (Taizé)

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Stay With Me (Taizé)

Stay with me, remain here with me.
Watch and pray,
watch and pray.

Verses:

1. Stay here and keep watch with me. Watch and pray, watch and pray!
2. Watch and pray not to give way to temptation.
3. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak.
4. My heart is nearly broken with sorrow. Remain here with me, stay awake and pray.
5. Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by.
6. Father, if this cannot pass me by without my drinking it, your will be done.

See also: the original (German) version: Bleibet hier

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Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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21 February 2013

Our Father (Taizé)

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Exaudi orationem meam (Taizé)

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Bleib mit deiner Gnade (Taizé)

See also the English version: Stay with us O Lord Jesus Christ

Music: Jacques Berthier (English bio) (French bio)

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上主祢知悉我所有 (Taizé)

上主祢知悉我所有，
祢知道我一心愛祢。

See also: original version (Viešpatie, tu viską žinai)

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20 February 2013

God So Loved The World (Stainer)

God so loved the world.
God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoso believeth, believeth in Him
should not perish, should not perish
but have everlasting life.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world.
God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through Him might be saved.

God so loved the world.
God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoso believeth, believeth in Him
should not perish, should not perish
but have everlasting life,

everlasting life, everlasting, everlasting life.
God so loved the world.
God so loved the world.
God so loved the world.

Composer: John Stainer (1840-1901)

Tree of Life and Awesome Mystery (Marty Haugen)

Tree of life and awesome mystery,
In your death we are reborn,
Though you die in all of history,
still you rise with every morn,
Still you rise with every morn.

Seed that dies to rise in glory,
May we see ourselves in you,
If we learn to live your story,
We may die to rise anew,
we may die to rise anew.

We remember truth one spoken,
love passed on through act and word,
Every person, lost and broken
wears the body of our Lord,
wears the body of our Lord.

Gentle Jesus, mighty Spirit,
come inflame our hearts anew,
We may all your joy inherit,
if we bear the cross with you,
if we bear the cross with you.

Christ you lead and we shall follow,
stumbling though our steps may be,
One with you in joy and sorrow,
we the river you the sea,
we the river you the sea

Composer: Marty Haugen (1984)

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Again We Keep This Solemn Fast

Again we keep this solemn fast
A gift of faith from ages past,
This Lent which bids us lovingly
To faith and hope and charity.

The law and prophets from of old
In figured ways this Lent foretold,
Which Christ, all ages’ Lord and Guide,
In these last days has sanctified.

More sparing, therefore, let us make
The words we speak, the food we take,
Our sleep, our laughter, ev’ry sense;
Learn peace through holy penitence.

Let us avoid each harmful way
That lures the careless mind astray;
By watchful prayer our spirits free
From scheming of the Enemy.

We pray, O blessed Three in One,
Our God while endless ages run,
That this, our Lent of forty days,
May bring us growth and give you praise.

Text: Ex more docti mystico; ascribed to Gregory the Great, c. 540–604, tr. Peter J. Scagnelli (b. 1949)
Tune: ERHALT UNS HERR, Klug’s Geistliche Lieder, 1543

Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble (Marty Haugen)

Refrain:

Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble.
Be with me, Lord, I pray.

1. You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord Most High,
who abide in the shadow of our God,
say to the Lord, "My refuge and fortress,
the God in whom I trust."

2. No evil shall befall you, no pain come near,
for the angels stand close by your side,
guarding you always and bearing you gently,
watching over your life.

3. Those who cling to the Lord live secure in God's love;
lifted high those who trust in God's name.
Call on the Lord, who will never forsake you,
God will bring you salvation and joy.

Text: Psalm 91
Music: Marty Haugen (1980)

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17 February 2013

Frieden, Frieden (Taizé)

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Seigneur, tu gardes mon âme (Taizé)

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Ad te Jesu Christe (Taizé)

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Dominus Spiritus est (Taizé)

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16 February 2013

Cantate Domino canticum novum (Taizé)

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Que j'exulte et jubile (Taizé)

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Il Signore ti ristora (Taizé)

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15 February 2013

Esprit consolateur (Taizé)

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Jesu Christe, Filius Dei (Taizé)

Jesu Christe, Filius Dei,
in adiutorium meum intende.
Jesu Christe, Filius Dei,
ad adiuvandum mihi festina.

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12 February 2013

Holy is your name / Magnificat (David Haas)

1. My soul is filled with joy
as I sing to God my savior:
you have looked upon your servant,
you have visited your people.

Refrain

And holy is your name
through all generations!
Everlasting is your mercy
to the people you have chosen,
and holy is your name.

2. I am lowly as a child,
but I know from this day forward
that my name will be remembered,
for all will call me blessed.

3. I proclaim the pow’r of God,
you do marvels for your servants;
though you scatter the proud-hearted
and destroy the might of princes.

4. To the hungry you give food,
send the rich away empty.
In your mercy you are mindful
of the people you have chosen.

5. In your love you now fulfill
what you promised to your people.
I will praise you, Lord, my savior,
everlasting is your mercy.

Paraphrase of the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55)

Tune: WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
Composer: David Haas (b. 1957)

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11 February 2013

In resurrectione tua (Taizé)

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Nebojte se (Taizé)

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10 February 2013

Jesu Redemptor (Taizé)

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O Christe Domine Jesu (Taizé)

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Magnificat Choral (Taizé)

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Exomologisthe to Kyrio (Taizé)

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09 February 2013

Bogoroditse Dievo 2 / Богородице Дево (Taizé)

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Gospodi / Господи (Taizé)

Gospodi A

Gospodi B

Gospodi C

Gospodi E

Gospodi F

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Rendez grâce au Seigneur (Taizé)

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What Sweeter Music (Rutter)

What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heav’nly King?
Awake the voice! Awake the string!
Dark and dull night, fly hence away,
And give the honour to this day
That sees December turn’d to May.

Why does the chilling winter’s morn
Smile, like a field beset with corn?
Or smell like a meadow newly shorn
Thus on the sudden? Come and see
The cause, why things thus fragrant be:
‘Tis he is born, whose quickening birth
Gives life and lustre, public mirth,
To heaven and the under earth.

We see him come, and know him ours,
Who, with his sunshine and his show’rs
Turns all the patient ground to flowers,
The darling of the world is come,
And fit it is, we find a room
To welcome him. The nobler part
Of all the house here, is the heart,
Which we will give him; and bequeath
This holly, and this ivy wreath,
To do him honour, who’s our King,
And Lord of all this revelling.

What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?

This carol was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in 1987.

Text: R. Herrick
Music: John Rutter (1987)