And as you sing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God, our worship should give God praise and honor that is reserved for hymn alone. For example, we don’t praise Mary for creating the universe, but we do praise God for that as can be seen in ...
PRAYER– Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who know how courageously Thy holy Martyrs have confessed the faith, may experience their goodness as they intercede for us with Thee. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who lives and reigns with Thee, in the unity of the Holy ...
get down by 1:30 PM, and be in camp before the rain started. But it had been two decades since since I made the hike, and I forgot how long and arduous it is. We got the two-thirds point and the rain rolled in early. Morgan is as...
This Christmas hymn struck a particular chord with me this year. (No pun intended.) I have fond memories as a youth of my sister and myself singing Christmas hymns with my mom before bedtime. We would sing all the stanzas. What a beautiful season. Merry Christmas to all! Hark! The ...
or capacity – that gets stronger when its exercised – and atrophies – when it is not.” St. Francis shows us that faith and love, prayer and service arethemain muscles in our spiritual body; and for artists they are the virtues that keep our lives balanced. Are we not all artists?
and emitted a sweet fragrance, which filled the church and refreshed all who were present. Under his head was found his hymn to Our Lady, which he had had buried with him. The following night three young men saw a brilliant light issuing from the open tomb and streaming through the window...
makes the church and we cooperate with God by allowing him to incorporate us into the body of Christ by receiving his grace. Hymns go south really fast when they make it seem like that we do that as well as can be seen in a common hymn sung on Ash Wednesday called Ashes by Tom ...
warriors of the heavenly army we sing a hymn of glory to the Lord; venerating the memory of the saints, we hope for some part and fellowship with them; we eagerly await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, until he, our life, shall appear and we too will appear with him in glory.”...
These special prayers, written by such inspiring figures as St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius Loyola, can be great additions to your prayer life. The Our Catholic Prayers Blog In this Blog we take a fresh look at various topics related to Catholic Prayers and our wonderful faith. ...
don't have much information on the music used, but apparently psalms were sung to plainchant and such pieces as the Te Deum and other Canticles were sung to Anglican chant. Hymns were used, many of which were composed for the C-A Church, but I have never seen a copy of the hymn...