Church Music Corner › Third Sunday of Lent 2026 [loc-003J]

Oculi mei semper ad Dóminum, quia ipse evéllet de láqueo pedes meos: réspice in me, et miserére mei, quóniam únicus et pauper sum ego.

This Sunday our director was hit with the double-whammy of being both sick and busy, so the choir at All Saints Ainslie was under my (figurative) baton as we sang Saint-Saëns' Ave Verum Corpus, a piece new to me:

Ave verum corpus natum de María Vírgine;	Hail, true body, born of the Virgin Mary;
Vere passum, immolátum in cruce pro hómine;	True suffering, sacrificed on the cross for Man;
Cuius latus perforátum unda fluxit sánguine	From whose pierced side flowed waves of blood,
Esto nobis prægustátum in mortis examine.	Be for us a foretaste in death's trial.

Our organ scholar Lillian also very successfully played for the entire service for the first time. Congratulations to her!