Yesterday was Good Friday. I had the privilege of singing Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with our church's cantor, who is a marvelous soprano. I used the picture above as inspiration. We sang it during the Veneration of the Cross. The piece is beautiful (hear it here, I listened to it endlessly). The words are in Latin, and depict the sorrow of Mary, Jesus' mother, at the foot of the cross:
Stabat Mater, dolorosa
iuxta Crucem, lacrimosa
dum pendebat Filius
There are translations online more in keeping with the meter, but I wanted to keep the literal translation in my mind. Here is what I came up with:
Standing Mother, sorrowful
next to the Cross, weeping
while there hung her Son
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