My Choice - Popule Meus (My People): Good Friday Hymn

The Improperia are a series of antiphons and responses of exceptional beauty, expressing the remonstrance of Jesus Christ with His people. They are also known as the "Reproaches" .

In the Catholic liturgy they are sung as part of the observance of the Passion, usually on the afternoon of Good Friday.

The Improperia appear in the Pontificale of Prudentius (AD 846-861) and gradually came into use throughout Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, finally being incorporated into the Roman Ordo in the fourteenth century.

The music carries the same name, "Popule Meus", a very beautiful hymn which was composed in 1937 by Mro Carmelo Scicluna and played by the Pinto Philharmonic Society St Sebastian Band which was founded in 1862.

You can read more about the Good Friday Function and also read the Improperia in Maltese by clicking here: http://www.aboutmalta.com/grazio/gimghalkbira.html

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POPULE MEUS (My People)

Popule meus, quid feci tibi? aut in quo contristavi te? responde mihi.
My people: what have I made you or in what have I offended you? Answer me.

Quia eduxi te de terra Aegypti: parasti crucem salvatori tuo.
Because I take you out of the earth of Egypt, have you prepared a cross to your Saviour?

Ego propter te flagellavi Aegyptum cum primogenitis suis: et tu me flagellatum tradidisti.
Because I punished Egypt with their first-borns, have you surrendered to be lashed?

Ego te eduxi de Aegypto, demerso Pharaone in mare rubrum: et tu me tradidisti principibus sacerdotum.
I took you out of Egypt, I sank the Pharaoh in the red sea and you delivered me to the princes of the priests.

Ego ante te aperui mare: et tu aperuisti lancea latus meum.
I opened the red sea before you and you opened my side with the lance.

Ego ante te præivi in columna nubis: et tu me duxisti ad prætorium Pilati.
I guided you in the cloud column and you took me to Pilate's courtroom.

Ego te pavi manna per desertum: et tu me cecidisti alapis et flagellis.
I fed you with manna in the desert and you hurt me with slaps and lashes.

Ego te potavi aqua salutis de petra: et tu me potasti felle et aceto.
Of the rock I gave you to drink the healthy water but you gave me to drink bile and vinegar.

Ego propter te Chananæorum reges percussi et tu percussisti arundine caput meum
I hurt the cananean kings for you and you hurt my head with a cane.

Ego dedi tibi sceptrum regale et tu dedisti capite meo spineam coronam.
I gave you a real scepter and you put in my head a crown of thorns.

Ego te exaltavi magna virtute et tu me suspendisti in patíbulo crucis.
I exalted you with great power and you lifted me in the scaffold of the cross.

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