Latin: Ave generosa gloriosa et intacta puella, tu pupilla castitatis, tu pupilla castitatis, tu materia sanctitatis, que Deo placuit. 
English: Hail nobly born, hail, honored and inviolate, you Maiden are the piercing gaze of chastity, you the material of holiness.

Ave Generosa music by Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) text Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Ave Maria music by Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)

Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia. For He whom you merited to bear, alleluia, has risen, as He said, alleluia. Pray for us to God, alleluia.

Regina Caeli Solemn Tone

Angelus Ad Virginem , trad. 14 cent Irish, setting by Sir David Willcocks (1919-2015)

Stabat Mater Dolorosa, Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)

Polyhymnia Saint Louis women's schola with guest harpist Amelia Schwartz

Maria Walks Among The Thorn, trad. German text, music by Andrew Carter (b. 1939)

Polyhymnia Saint Louis women's schola with guest organist Chuck Chauvin

Hail Holy Queen, Trad. Hymn

While downcast parents blushed,
ashamed to see their offspring wand'ring off into the fallen exile's pilgrimage, you cried aloud with crystal voice, to lift up humankind from that malicious fall.

Cum Erubuerint, Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our life, our sweetness and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; 
to thee do we send up our sights,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

Salve Regina, Medieval Solemn Tone, Libre Usualis

Polyhymnia Saint Louis women's schola, 	Inés de Erausquin, recorder

Regina Caeli Jubila, Praetorious (1571 - 1621)

Alleluia, Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos.
Alleluia, Stir up your might, O Lord, and come to save us.

Recorded live February 19th, 2023 at Saint Peter's Cathedral, Belleville, IL

Alleluia Third Sunday Of Advent taken from the Roman Gradual

Andrew Carter b. 1939
Using the original Greek text of the Roman Catholic Mass,
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie Eleison.
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.

Kyrie, Missa Brevis, Andrew Carter

He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment. Who shall declare his generation? Because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. and he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death.

Tanquam Agnus,Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Jesus Christ The Apple Tree, Elizabeth Poston [1905-1987]

Text John 6: 56. 57
Alleluia, Caro mea vere est cibus, et sanguis meus vere est potus: qui maducat meam carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, in memanet et ego in eo.
Alleluia, My flesh is true food, my blood is the true drink: he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

Alleluia Body And Blood Christ,  Roman Gradual

Alleluia! O Virga mediatrix, sancta viscera tua mortem superaverunt et venter tuus omnes creaturas illuminavit il pulchro flore de suavissima integritate clausi pudoris tui orto.

Alelluia! O branch and mediatrix, your sacred flesh has conquered death, your womb all creatures illumined in beauty's bloom from that exquisite purity of your enclosed modesty sprung forth.

Alleluia, O  Virgo Mediatrix , Hildegard von Bingen

Revelation 22
Adapted from the SATB version for SSA voices by Ruth Manz

E'vn So Lord Jesus, Paul Manz

Gloria, Missa Brevis, Andrew Carter b. 1939

Text by Saint Thomas Aquinas
O sacrum convivium! in quo Christus sumitur, recolitur, memoria passionis ejus mens impletur gratia: et futurae floriae, nobis pignus datur. Alleluia
O sacred banquet! In which Christ is received, the memory of his passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory to us is given. Alleluia.

O Sacrum Convivum, Kenneth Leighton [1929-1988]

O Eve, Frank La Rocco b. 1951

Elizabeth Poston's Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
The tree of life my soul hath seen
Laden with fruit, and always green:
The trees of nature fruitless be
Compared with Christ the apple tree

His beauty doth all things excel:
By faith I know, but ne'er can tell
The glory which I now can see
In Jesus Christ the apple tree

For happiness I long have sought
And pleasure dearly I have bought:
I missed of all; but now I see
'Tis found in Christ the apple tree

I'm weary with my former toil
Here I will sit and rest awhile:
Under the shadow I will be
Of Jesus Christ the apple tree

This fruit doth make my soul to thrive
It keeps my dying faith alive;
Which makes my soul in haste to be
With Jesus Christ the apple tree

Jesus Christ The Apple Tree By Elizabeth Poston

Kyrie, Mass in G minor Op. 187, by Joseph Rheinberger 1839-1901
performed by the women of Polyhymnia
recorded at Epiphany of our Lord, Saint Louis Fall 2020

Kyrie Rheinberger Mass In G Minor

Introit, Nos Autem
Let our glory be in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; in him we have salvation, life and resurrection; through him we are rescued and set free. v. May God have mercy on us and bless us; may he cause his face to shine upon us and may he have mercy on us. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever Amen.

Introit, Nos Autem

Polyhymnia, founded in 2020, is a Saint Louis based, Catholic women's choir comprised of professional singers and musicians. The group's mission is to promote the classical arts  in parish communities through liturgy, performance, and mentoring. 

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