Templar chant: Media vita in morte sumus (Lyric video)

You like our content and you want to help us keep posting (you can donate as little as 1$ ): ---- Follow us on Twitter: ----------- About the chant: ----------- The Knights left their homes to go fight in strange lands. They prayed for decisive victories so that there would be peace. The hymn, “In the midst of life,“ is one of those founded on a more ancient hymn, the “Media in vita“ of Notker, a learned Benedictine of St. Gall, who died in 912. He is said to have composed it while watching some workmen, who were building the bridge of Martinsbruck at the peril of their lives. It was soon set to music, and became universally known; indeed it was used as a battle song, until the custom was forbidden on account of its being supposed to exercise magical influences. In a German version, it formed part of the service for the burial of the dead, as early as the thirteenth century, and is still preserved in an unmetrical form in the Burial Service of our own Church ----------- This chant is performed by CIRMA/ Ensemble Organum lead by Mr Marcel Pérès Website: Buy ’The Chant of the Templar’ Album from Amazon: ----------- Text in Latin : Media vita in morte sumus quem quaerimus adjutorem nisi te Domine qui pro peccatis nostris juste irasceris Sancte Deus sancte fortis sancte et misericors Salvator amarae morti ne tradas nos Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine secundum verbum tuum in pace Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuae Israel Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum Amen Media vita in morte sumus quem quaerimus adjutorem nisi te Domine qui pro peccatis nostris juste irasceris Ne projicias nos in tempore senectutis cum defecerit virtus nostra ne derelinquas nos Domine Sancte Deus Noli claudere aures tuas ad preces nostras Domine Sancte fortis Qui cognoscis occulta cordis parce peccatis nostris Domine sancte et misericors Salvator amarae morti ne tradas nos