AVE VERUM CORPUS – (Mozart)

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Cypress Choral Music · Ave Verum Corpus – (SSAA) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; arr. Nickel

featuring the Cypress Studio Singers (6 women)

LYRICS

Ave verum corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine
cuius latus perforatum
fluxit aqua et sanguine:
esto nobis praegustatum
in mortis examine.

Translation

Hail, true Body, born
of the Virgin Mary,
having truly suffered, sacrificed
on the cross for mankind,
from whose pierced side
water and blood flowed:
Be for us a sweet foretaste
in the trial of death!