The Recovering Choir Director

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregávit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exultémus, et in ipso iucundémur.
Timeámus, et amémus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligámus nos sincéro.

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Simul ergo cum in unum congregámur:
Ne nos mente dividámur, caveámus.
Cessent iúrgia malígna, cessent lites.
Et in médio nostri sit Christus Deus.

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Simul quoque cum beátis videámus,
Gloriánter vultum tuum, Christe Deus:
Gáudium quod est imménsum, atque probum,
Saécula per infiníta saeculórum. Amen.

Where charity and love are, God is there.
Christ’s love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.

Where charity and love are, God is there.
As we are gathered into one body,
Beware, lest we be divided in mind.
Let evil impulses stop, let controversy cease,
And may Christ our God be in our midst.

Where charity and love are, God is there.
And may we with the saints also,
See Thy face in glory, O Christ our God:
The joy that is immense and good,
Unto the ages through infinite ages. Amen.

Ave verum Corpus natum
De María Vírgine:
Vere passum, immolátum
In cruce pro hómine:
Cuius latus perforátum
Fluxit aqua et sánguine:
Esto nobis praegustátum
Mortis in exámine.

O Iesu dulcis!
O Iesu pie!
O Iesu Fili Maríae. Amen.

Hail, true Body, truly born
Of the Virgin Mary mild
Truly offered, wracked and torn,
On the Cross for all defiled,
From Whose love pierced, sacred side
Flowed Thy true Blood’s saving tide:
Be a foretaste sweet to me
In my death’s great agony.

O my loving, Gentle One,
Sweetest Jesus,
Mary’s Son. Amen.

Ave María, gratia plena, Dóminus tecum:
benedícta tu in muliéribus,
et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta María, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatóribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

• Choir: Choir of St. Clement’s Eucharistic Shrine
• Director: Elisabeth Pifer
• Choral composers: Maurice Duruflé, Patrick C. Valentino