This is another song from OCP’s selections for Breaking Bread in 2024. It is by Dan Schutte and is based on the Reproaches in the Good Friday mass and the ancient chant AVE VERA CORPUS. For once the YouTube clip from OCP does the material justice.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
The refrain for the choir or assembly is metrical but the verses for the cantor (actually it would be great for the priest to sing it) are chant. My backing has my usual failed attempt to get some sort of metricality for BIAB to use.
Chris Brunelle is, as usual, marvellous: