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Parce Domine

Music by Mark Ruttle

This piece is intended as a musical  meditation on the Lenten antiphon, Parce Domine. The text is derived from Joel 2:17 which is heard on Ash Wednesday and the oft repeated Psalmist's lament, "How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry forever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?"

Parce, Domine,

parce populo tuo:

ne in aeternum irascaris nobis.

Spare, Lord,

spare your people:
Be not angry with us forever.

© 2017 by Mark Ruttle

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