Category Archives: Chant
Corpus Christi: Palestrina’s, “Ego sum panis vivus”
Ave Generosa!
In this vale of tears, after God, there is no greater consolation but to contemplate and praise His Most Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary! Here is Hildegard von Bingen’s hymn to Our Lady: Ave Generosa! Hail, O Generous Woman!
Let us beseech this Virgin of Virgins, to save the Church from the impiety of Cardinal Kasper’s proposals and the malign conspiracy behind them which is spreading over the Church as a mortiferous cancer.