Sentinela [English translation]

**”Tantum ergo Sacramentum [Hence so great a Sacrament]

Veneremur cernui: [Let us venerate with heads bowed]

Et antiquum documentum [And let the old practice]

Novo cedat ritui: [Give way to the new rite:]

Praestet fides supplementum… [Let faith provide a supplement…]”

( My Lord, I’m not worthy

Of being visited by You in my humble home

But if You wish, if You want to visit me

I’ll give you my heart, I’ll give you my heart…)

Death watches, I’m the sentinel

Of the body of this brother of mine who is passing away

I look back at all that have happened,

The memory of it won’t die away

A dark figure comes in my direction,

To show its pain sown in this ground

Its face shines with its prayer, like a knife and flower

It comes to tell me stories

I hear this voice far, far away

Which time will not take away

You need to claim your strenght, brother, to survive

If we join our paths in one, if we don’t run away nor deviate

Death won’t come

You need to love your friend, brother, and remember

That the world will only bow

When the love in you is born

Search freedom

In the woman you chose for you

Death watches, I’m the sentinel

Of the body of this brother of mine who’s already gone

I look back at all I have learned,

The memory of it won’t die

I hear this voice far, far away

Which time will not take away…

I hear this voice far, far away

Which time will not take away…

**”Praestet fides supplementum… [Let faith provide a supplement…]

Sensuum defectui. [For the failure of the senses.]

Genitori, Genitoque [To the Begetter and the Begotten]

Laus et jubilatio, [Be praise and jubilation…]”