O Magnum Mysterium. Winchester Cathedral Choir.

Early Morning (0400 hrs) photo of Winchester Cathedral, 

showing the West End, Central Tower 

and the United Kingdom's second-longest Cathedral Nave.

Date: 2006.

Source: http://www.wyrdlight.com.

Author: http://www.wyrdlight.com Antony McCallum.

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O Magnum Mysterium.

Winchester Cathedral Choir.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/bkIDNnZ9pMk.

Winchester Cathedral Choir sing Morten Lauridsen's hauntingly beautiful "O Magnum Mysterium".

O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
jacentem in præsepio.

Beata virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt
portare Dominum Christum, Alleluia!


O great mystery
and wondrous sacrament,
that animals should see the newborn Lord
lying in their manger.

Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy
to bear the Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia!