Dona nobis pacem

Dona nobis pacem (Latin for "Grant us peace") is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the Roman Catholic mass. The phrase, in isolation, has been appropriated for a number of works, which include:

• Dona nobis pacem, a traditional canon
• The final movement of J S Bach's Mass in B minor
• The cantata Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1936)
• One section of Adiemus V: Vocalise, by Karl Jenkins (2003)
• One track of the album No Boundaries, by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2006)
• Track 12 of the album Whiskey Tango Ghosts, by Tanya Donelly (2004)
• At the end of Pray Your Gods by Toad the Wet Sprocket (1992)
• In an arrangement of I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Dona Nobis Pacem) recorded by Wayne Watson on One Christmas Eve (1994)
• The third movement of Symphonie Liturgique by Arthur Honegger
• The phrase is used by the Doctor - season 4, episode 6 of Doctor Who, The Poison Sky - when speaking in code to Donna Noble who is trapped on the TARDIS by the Sontarans. (Original airdate: 3 May 2008)
• It forms the climax of Leonard Bernstein's Mass
• Dona Nobis Pacem is repeatedly quoted in Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock by its antihero Pinkie Brown