Media vita in morte sumus
Quem quærimus adjutorem nisi te, Domine?
Qui pro peccatis nostris juste irasceris
Sancte Deus, sancte fortis
Sancte misericors Salvator
Amaræ morti ne tradas nos
In te speraverunt patres nostri
Speraverunt et liberasti eos
Ad te clamaverunt patres nostri
Clamaverunt et non sunt confusi
Gloria Patri, et Filio
et Spiritui Sancto
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death