Velum templi

General Information

The Second Responsory of the Office of Tenebrae on Good Friday. Taken from Matthew 27:51-52; Luke 23:42.

Settings by composers

• Giovanni Croce SATB
• Mariano Garau SATB
• Marco Antonio Ingegneri SATB (Edition withdrawn)
• Antonio Maria Pacchioni SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Ruggerio Argilliano — Velum templi
• Francisco López Capillas — Velum templi
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Responsories for Good Friday, ZWV 55:10-18
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Velum templi scissum est

Text and translations

Latin text Velum templi scissum est, Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei, Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum. Petrae scissae sunt, et monuménta áperta sunt, et multa córpora sanctórum, qui dormíerant, surrexérunt. Et omnis...

English translation The veil of the temple was rent, And all the earth trembled: the thief cried out from the cross, saying: Remember me, O Lord, when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. The rocks were split, and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints, who slept, arose. And all...