Si Linguis Hominum
This piece was composed for a wedding. It celebrates the complexity and beauty of love, understood as both the sacred emotion of bride and groom and also, in a broader sense, as charitable love, as taught by Christ and expressed in this case in the second letter from St. Paul to the Corinthians.
Si linguis hominum loquar
caritatem autem non habeam
et si noverim omnia mysteria
caritatem autem non habeam
factus sum velut aes sonans
caritas patiens est benigna est
non aemulatur non agit perperam
non inflatur non inritatur
omnia suffert
omnia credit
omnia sperat
If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Premiere: August 18, 2004
First Methodist Church of Forth Worth
Choir of the First Methodist Church of Forth Worth
