Video • A Chinese Offertory Hymn

WO WEEKS AGO, my new choir sang at a nuptial Mass. The mission of our choir is to unite the Catholic classical singers in Hong Kong and to promote classical sacred music. However, in the liturgy, we also try to sing the local church music to its highest standard and here is an example:

I sing the truth of love, Beside my Blessed Mother,

Offering up these bread and wine, Praying that God would accept them. Alleluia!

This video was filmed on a phone, so the quality is not the best, but you can still hear the music pretty well. The hymn was written by Mons. Antonio Chi-Ming Lau from Taiwan. He is trained in both Chinese and Western music, which you can probably tell from the recording: the Eastern-flavored melodies and with Western harmonies.