Deus, Deus meus : Gregorian chant (Lyric video)

Follow us on Twitter: ------------------------------------------------------------------- About the chant : ------------------------------------------------------------------ ’Deus, Deus Meus’ translated into English as ’My God, my God look upon me’’ which comes from the familiar Psalm 22 (VV 2-9, 18, 19, 22, 24, and 32). This chant tells the second three hours that Christ spent on the cross were characterized by silence and darkness and God’s seeming deafness to the pleas and cries of his Son. We learn in the Lord’s retreating and passing how vast a person he was among us. Our memories of what he was like before the “retreat” or “departure” become suffused with the profound weight of post-mortem insight. Perhaps, historically, Jesus died more as he does in Mark and Matthew that he does in Luke or John. Perhaps he cried out, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani… My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?” rather than “Into your hands, I commen