Mozart's "Ave Verum"

This hymn, with universal Latin lyrics in the Christian tradition, is among my earliest musical memories. My father was a tenor in the church choir and it was this beautiful combination of words and music that I remember his practicing in the car on the way to Mass on Sunday morning when "Ave Verum" was part of the liturgy on certain Sundays.
I sang this hymn at my father's and my mother's funeral Masses in 2002.

Francis Campbell