The Angelus Project: Pondering the Regina Coeli with song

Monday, April 27, 2015

Pondering the Regina Coeli with song

This week's musical setting of the Regina Coeli goes a bit further than the spare words of the antiphonal prayer. It is by Pietro Mascagni, from the one-act opera "Cavalleria rusticana."

The lyrics (sung in Latin and then Italian) are:

CHORUS
Regina coeli laetare.
Alleluja! Quia quem meruisti portare.
Alleluja!
Resurrexit sicut dixit.
Alleluja!

in the square
Let us rejoice
That Our Lord is not dead,
And in glory
Has opened the tomb!
Let us rejoice
That Our Lord is risen again
And today is gone up
Into the glory of Heaven!

CHORUS
inside the church
Alleluja!

When Ordinary Time returns, bringing the Angelus prayer with it, The Angelus Project will again feature a weekly depiction of the Annunciation to help you ponder the Angelus.

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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.