Olivier Messiaen in 1984 completed his "Livre du Saint Sacrament" or "The Book of the holy sacrament. It is a cycle of eighteen compositions. The first four parts are the musical expression of the worship of Christ as present in the Blessed Sacrament. From the fifth part episodes from the life of Christ depicted. Remarkably, bird sounds play a central role in the whole composition.

Adoro te
La Source de Vie
Le Dieu caché
Acte de Foi
Puer natus est nobis
La manne et le Pain de Vie
Les ressuscites et la lumiere de Vie
Institution de l'Eucharistie
Les tenebres
La Resurrection du Christ

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L'apparition du Christ ressuscite a Marie-Madeleine
La Transsubstantiation
Les deux murailles d'eau
Prière avant la communion
La joie de la grace
Priere apres la communion
La Presence multipliee
Offrande et Alleluia final

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