Your Hand in Mine

With the intent to incorporate the sacred and the secular in this adaptation of the final, seventh movement of The Seven Last Words of Christ, "Into your hands I commend my spirit," this movement, set for unaccompanied SSAATTBB chorus, begins with the Latin text and ends with Brian Newhouse's poem in English. The English text personalizes the experience and causes the listener to reflect on death in general, both Christ's and our own.