Thanksgiving

 

A special grace: the choir at church today--a new and wonderful choir--sang my favourite prayer, one I pray every day, and sang it in Latin: the Salve Regina. No trite mock folk music by the St. Louis Jesuits dripping Hallmark sentiments here.

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle. 

Shivers down my spine.