Confitebor tibi (Offertory)

General information

Offertory for Passion Sunday, now replaced by Lent V. Also Offertory for Feast of the Most Holy Name (Tridentine calendar).
Source of text is Psalm 110:1a (Vulgate) and Psalm 118:17,25b (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

• Giovanni Battista Casali SATB
• Giovanni Paolo Cima SATB with bc.
• Orlando di Lasso SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Josef Rheinberger SATTB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Heinrich Biber — Confitebor, C. 14
• Gregorian chant — Confitebor tibi
• Georg Prenner — Confitebor Tibi Domine
• Jeffrey Quick — Confitebor tibi Domine

Text and translations

Latin text 110:1a  Confitebor tibi, Domine, in toto corde meo. 118:17  Retribue servo tuo, ut vivam et custodiam sermones tuos. 118:25b  Vivifica me secundum verbum tuum, Domine.

English translation 111:1a  I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, 119:17  O do well unto thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word: 119:25b  Quicken me according to thy word, O Lord.