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As this year ends and a new one begins, I ask the Blessed Mother to embrace us all and take us to her Son Jesus.
The following setting of Ave Maria by William Gomez is one of the most beautiful settings of the prayer. I include below the video of Elina Garanča, mezzo-soprano, singing this setting of Ave Maria in Vienna during Christmastide A.D. 2007. The text of this setting is in Spanish.
Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
