Sacerdotes Domini

General information

Offertory for Corpus Christi.

Settings by composers

• William Byrd SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAATB
• Oreste Ravanello SSA.SSA

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Gregor Aichinger — Sacerdotes Domini
• Bernhard Kothe — Sacerdotes Domini
• Franz Xaver Witt — Sacerdotes Domini

Text and translations

Latin text Sacerdotes Domini incensum et panes offerunt Deo: et ideo sancti erunt Deo suo et non polluent nomen eius. Alleluia..

English translation Then did priests make offering of incense and loaves of finest wheat to God: and therefore shall they be holy to their Lord and shall not defile his most holy name. Alleluia.