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sancta simplicitas: holy innocence: Or "sacred simplicity". sancte et sapienter: in a holy and wise way: Also sancte sapienter (holiness, wisdom), motto of several institutions, notably King's College London: sanctum sanctorum: Holy of Holies: referring to a more sacred and/or guarded place, within a lesser guarded, yet also holy location ...
Example: "Obiit anno Domini MDCXXXVI o (tricensimo sexto), [anno] aetatis suae XXV o (vicensimo quinto)" ("he died in the 1636th year of the Lord, [being] the 25th [year] of his age[/life]"). affidavit: he asserted: Legal term derived from fides ("faith"), originating at least from Medieval Latin to denote a statement under oath. age quod agis ...
O sacrum convivium" is a Latin prose text honoring the Blessed Sacrament. It is included as an antiphon to the Magnificat in the vespers of the liturgical office on the feast of Corpus Christi . The text of the office has been attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas .
The text is taken from "O sacrum convivium", a Latin text celebrating the Blessed Sacrament. This was the first time Messiaen used a Latin text, instead of a text in French. [7] A mainly tonal work, it is in F-sharp major, Messiaen's favorite key. As in Le banquet céleste, F-sharp major expresses the mystical experience of "superhuman love". [8]
"Tantum ergo" is the incipit of the last two verses of Pange lingua, a Medieval Latin hymn composed by St Thomas Aquinas circa A.D. 1264. The "Genitori genitoque" and "Procedenti ab utroque" portions are adapted from Adam of Saint Victor's sequence for Pentecost. [1]
To him, it seems, only the impetuous attraction between two people is sacred. Rodrigues is in the business of bluntly desecrating institutions and idols. Through his homoerotic tableaux vivants ...
Symphoniae sacrae I (literally: Sacred Symphonies, Book One) is a collection of different pieces of vocal sacred music on Latin texts, composed by Heinrich Schütz, published in 1629. He set mostly psalms and excerpts from the Song of Solomon for one to three voices, with various instruments and continuo.
Use of the O Antiphons also occurs in many Lutheran churches. For example, an English translation of "The Great O Antiphons" appears with the hymn O Come, O Come, Emmanuel in the Lutheran Service Book. In the Book of Common Worship published by the Presbyterian Church (USA), the antiphons can be read as a praise litany at Morning or Evening Prayer.