Rorate Caeli

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
(Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.)

Ne irascaris Domine, ne ultra memineris iniquitatis: ecce civitas Sancti facta est deserta: Sion deserta facta est: Jerusalem desolata est: domus sanctificationis tuae et gloriae tuae, ubi laudaverunt te patres nostri.
(Be not angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold the city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert. Jerusalem is desolate, the house of our holiness and of thy glory, where our fathers praised thee)

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
(Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.)

Peccavimus, et facti sumus tamquam immundus nos, et cecidimus quasi folium universi: et iniquitates nostrae quasi ventus abstulerunt nos: abscondisti faciem tuam a nobis, et allisisti nos in manu iniquitatis nostrae.
(We have sinned, and we are become as one unclean, and we have all fallen as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us by the hand of our iniquity.)

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
(Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One)

Vide Domine afflictionem populi tui, et mitte quem missurus es: emitte Agnum dominatorem terrae, de Petra deserti ad montem filiae Sion: ut auferat ipse iugum captivitatis nostrae.
(See, O Lord, the affliction of thy people, and send him whom thou hast promised to send. Send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth, from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion, that he himself may take off the yoke of our captivity)

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
(Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One)

Consolamini, consolamini, popule meus: cito veniet salus tua: quare maerore consumeris, quia innovavit te dolor? Salvabo te, noli timere, ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, Sanctus Israel, Redemptor tuus.
(Be comforted, be comforted, my people; thy salvation shall speedily come why wilt thou waste away in sadness? why bath sorrow seized thee? I will save thee; fear not: for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.)

Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant iustum.
(Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One.)

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[BrotherAlphonsusMary]

Beautiful job..my version still needs some work! :o)

[tritonusgesang]

Eine wunderbare Solostimme! -

[Rens1989]

This performance in the Great Church in Vlissingen in the Netherlands not Dutchland:p

[donhenri01]

It was during theyre tour in in Dutchland , but where exactly?

It is very beautifull indeed!

[expostfactum]

I saw/heared these boys in Cambridge and in Austin, they are just fantastic!Where is Andrew, the DOM?

[benoitmaur]

what is splendide magnifique... ouaaaaaaah

[benoitmaur]

beatiful