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Fauré’s Tanto Ergo offers devotion without theatrical excess. The music is warm, poised, and gently luminous, unfolding with the quiet confidence so characteristic of Fauré’s sacred writing. Rather than overwhelming the listener, it invites stillness: solo voice, chorus, and organ moving together in an atmosphere of reverence, restraint, and serene beauty. This is faith expressed not as spectacle, but as inward radiance.
**Latin**
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui;
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui;
Praestet fides supplementum
Sensuum defectui.
Genitori Genitoque
Laus et jubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio;
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio.
Amen.
**English Translation**
Therefore, so great a Sacrament
Let us venerate, bowed low;
And let the old covenant
Give way to the new rite;
Let faith provide what is lacking
Where the senses fail.
To the Father and the Son
Be praise and jubilation,
Salvation, honour, power also,
And blessing;
To the One proceeding from them both
May equal praise be given.
Amen.
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