16:16 - FAMILY 2012: OFFICIAL LITURGICAL HYMN RELEASED
The official liturgical hymn for the 7th World Meeting of Families, entitled Your family gives you thanks, has been released. The hymn was written and set to music by Father Claudio Burgio, Choir master and director of the Musical Chapel of the Milan Duomo. The hymn, recorded by the Cara Beltà Choir and the Orchestra of the Sacred Music Academy, both directed by Diego Montrone, will mark the event, from the Theological-Pastoral Congress to the Holy Mass celebrated by Benedict XVI on Sunday 3 June. It will be sung in four parts by all the choirs that will participate in the Feast of Testimonies and the Mass. More than 1,400 choristers will sing at Bresso Airport, from the Musical chapel of the Duomo, to La Verdi Choir, including the choir of Vareses St. Vittore Basilica, Cremonas Gregorian singers, and many other singers from parishes and deaneries of the diocese of Milan. The singers will be accompanied by La Verdi Orchestra. The words of the hymn, revised and approved by Card. Angelo Scola and Card. Ennio Antonelli, celebrate the Trinity, also on the occasion of the Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity due to be celebrated on 3 June. The image of the Trinity is an expression of the family viewed as a subject of communion and father-child relationships. You can listen to the hymn at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwo3rZzCMBM