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O crux ave, spes unica

10/4/2020

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On this solemn day, let me share with you a favourite piece of sacred music for today, by the perhaps lesser known Spanish composer Fernando Sor (1778-1839).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77geP_k4RHw

It is a moving and expressive work for Holy Week, a setting of the second stanza of the hymn Vexilla regis. While Sor was living, for three years, in Russia, he wrote this sacred choral piece for four voices in connection with the request for him to be admitted to the Order of the Golden Spur, the Ordine dello Speron d’Oro, to which Mozart also belonged.  As a result, Sor was admitted to the Order. 

O Crux ave, spes unica, 
Hoc passionis tempore 
Auge piis justitiam, 
Reisque dona veniam.

O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide 
With us now in this Passiontide:
New grace in pious hearts implant, 
And pardon to the guilty grant.

By Fr Tomas 
Illustration © Jan Hearn

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Sue Davis
11/4/2020 02:02:38 pm

Thank you. That was beautiful.

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