Ut Queant Laxis

From a performance given by the Latin Schola of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, directed by Kathleen Winters, in Costa Mesa, California, on the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, 2011.

English translation:
So that these your servants can, with all their voices, to sing your wonderful feats, clean the blemish of our spotted lips. O Saint John!

An angel came from the heavens to announce to your father the greatness of your birth, dictating your name and destination.

He (Zacarias) doubted these divine promises and was deprived of the use of speech; but when you were born he recovered the voice that he had lost.

Still locked in your mother's breast, you felt the King's presence housed in the vestal womb. And prophet, before being born, you revealed this mystery to your parents.

Glory be to the Father and to the only-begotten Son, and to you, Holy Spirit, their equal in greatness: one God forever. Amen.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• chant
• Gregorian chant
• concert
• singing
• schola
• a cappella
• St John the Baptist
• solfege