Caritas Dei

Romans 5:5b (alt.) Caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus nostris, alleluia: per inhabitantem Spiritum eius in nobis, alleluia. (God's love has been poured into our hearts, alleluia: Through the Holy Spirit indwelling in us, alleluia.) Psalm 103:1 Benedic anima mea Domino et omnia a quae intra me sunt, nomini sancto eius. (Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his Holy...

O Nata Lux

I've had my head down a lot recently with PhD work but here is one I wrote earlier: an a cappella SSA setting of O nata lux. It's traditionally a text used for the Transfiguration -- 6th August, but the readings also come up at the last Sunday before Lent. No recording yet, but there is a .pdf: O nata lux PDF and, as usual, robot flutes: O nata lux de lumine, Jesu redemptor saeculi, Dignare...

Talvilaulu — Song of the Winter

In 2015, I had the enjoyable experience of attending the Anglo Nordic Baltic Theological Conference, in Turku, Finland. Participants presented informal papers by day, and in the evening there was food, sauna, talk and not a little bit of wine. One thing led to another, and I ended up asking Rupert Moreton, of Lingua Fennica, whether there was any public domain poetry he'd like to translate and...