Angelis suis

General information

Gradual for Lent I.
Source of text is Psalm 90:11-12 (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

• Manuel Cardoso SATB
• Johann Joseph Fux SATB
• Johann Michael Haydn SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Matthieu Le Maistre — Angelis suis
• Domenico Quilici — Angelis suis
• Josef Rheinberger — Carmina sacra - 11 Motetten
• Kathryn Rose — Angelis suis

Text and translations

Latin text 11  Angelis suis Deus mandavit de te: ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis. 12  In manibus portabunt[tollent] te, ne forte[unquam] offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.

English translation 11  God shall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. 12  They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.