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"Lamentations of Jeremiah 1:1-5" is up on YouTube!

Added 2023-03-15 14:04:18 +0000 UTC

We hope everyone has a fruitful Lent and Happy Easter!

About the text: This text is taken from Chapter 1 of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, verses 1-5. Jeremiah was a prophet of the Old Testament who lived during, and wrote concerning, the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites (608-538 BC). There is a book of his writings in the Bible named after him, but there is also a separate book of his writings called "Lamentations" which contain powerful sentiments of sorrow, mourning all that Israel had lost due to their unfaithfulness to God. Each verse is introduced by a Hebrew letter as the verses go through the Hebrew alphabet. This is because the first word of the verses in Hebrew begins with that letter. Several texts from the Lamentations, including this one, are used in the Divine Office of the Catholic liturgy on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday: the three days surrounding the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The liturgy in which these texts are used is called "Tenebrae" or "Darkness". The text is in Latin because that is the language that the western Church chose to use in its liturgies.

About the music: The music you are hearing is a special sort of Gregorian chant, and is our original tone based off the Mozarabic tones found in a Spanish codex. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed singing it!

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