SSAATTBB setting of the traditional Latin Marian antiphon for Advent and Christmastide, "Alma Redemptoris Mater." 
 
Text:
Alma Redemptoris Mater,
quae pervia caeli Porta manes,
et stella maris, sucurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat populo:
tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante,
tuum sanctum Genitorem,
Virgo prius ac posterius,
Gabrielis ab ore Sumens illud Ave,
peccatorum miserere.
 
Translation:
Loving Mother of the Redeemer,
who remains the accessible Gateway of Heaven,
and Star of the Sea,
Give aid to a falling people
that strives to rise;
O Thou who begot thy holy Creator,
while all nature marvelled,
Virgin before and after
receiving that "Ave"
from the mouth of Gabriel,
have mercy on sinners.