Dona nobis pacem

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Dona nobis pacem (Latin: Give us peace) is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the Roman Catholic mass. It was set as a separate, final movement in Bach's Mass in B Minor. The phrase, in isolation, has been appopriated for other works:

• Dona nobis pacem, a cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1937).
• One section of Adiemus V: Vocalise, by Karl Jenkins (2003).
• One track of the album No Boundaries, by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2006).
• At the end of "Pray Your Gods" by Toad the Wet Sprocket (1992).
• Dona Nobis Pacem is a musical round.
• In an arrangement of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Dona Nobis Pacem)" recorded by Wayne Watson on One Christmas Eve (1994).
• At the end of the song "She was naked" by Supersister.
• The third movement of Symphonie Liturgique by Arthur Honegger.

It appeared in the Kenneth Branagh film Henry V.