André Gouzes is a Dominican Friar of the Province of Toulouse, ordained priest in 1974, liturgist and composer of music, he played a significant role in the liturgical renewal of the Second Vatican Council.
Le Seigneur est tendresse et pitié – Psalm 102 is one of the two versions I recently composed for the national magazine Voix Nouvelles.
One particulatrity of liturgical year C is that the psalm 102 is used two times, once for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, the second time for the 3rd Sunday in Lent. The challenge was to set up two relevant musics on the same psalm that would create two different spiritual atmospheres.
