Iam non dicam

General information

Responsory for the ordination of a priest.
Source of text is John 15:15.

Settings by composers

• Ippolito Baccusi SATTB
• Giovanni Gabrieli SSAB.SSAB (adds variant 2)
• Orlando di Lasso SATTBB (adds variant 1)
• Tiburtio Massaino SSAATTB (adds variant 1)

Text and translations

Latin text Iam non dicam vos servos sed amicos meos, quia omnia cognovitis quae operatus sum in medio vestri. Variant 1 Accipite Spiritum Sanctum in vobis paraclitum, ille est quem Pater mittet vobis. Variant 2 John 15:15b  quia servus nescit, quid faciat Dominus eius. Vos autem, dixi amicos omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo nota feci vobis. Alleluia.

English translation I no longer call you servants but my friends, because you know all the things I have wrought in the midst of you. Variant 1 Receive the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send to you. Variant 2 John 15:15b  for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. Alleluia.