Word: agnus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts," recalling Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And at the great moment of communion with the Body and Blood of Christ, the congregation may sing in supplication, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis: "Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy...
...Agnus is Latin for lamb, a beast revered because St. John called Jesus the "Lamb of God.'' Agues the name (Inez is the same name) derives from Greek (h)agne, which means chaste...
...Kyrie Eleison, Greek words which mean "Lord have mercy upon us." The conventional divisions follow: the Gloria (Gloria in excelsis Deo, "Glory be to God on high"), the Credo (Credo in unum Deum, "I believe in one God"), the Sanctus (Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, "Holy, holy, holy") and the Agnus Dei which begins "O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world," and ends "Grant us thy Peace." Choruses, solos, duets ? Bach wrote with a prodigal hand. Deeply pleading is his opening Kyrie, but for many there is in all music no passage more moving than...