Southern Living
Most of us look back on our freshman fall, however fondly, as a time of acclimation. No matter how close or far you traveled to get to campus, whether the fall foliage-framed campus was just another day or a mind-blowing Hallmark movie moment (as a Californian, the golden leaves and e...
A joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph. used in: The Bells Lenore Pagan A follower of a polytheistic religion, as in ancient Rome. One who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods. used in: The Purloined Letter palazzo...
作曲:Jeannie Ustimchuk 作词:Jeannie Ustimchuk They throw their words like arrows aiming to wound But I stand tall I won't be consumed I see their judgement but I won't be swayed I'm built with strength and peace I'll stay They paint me in shades I don't recognize But my truth is...
The real answer is probably all of us—some of us from old wounds of not fitting into societal expectations, some of damage done by religious systems based in fear, but if we are open to God and invite others, we can find healing. And may the almighty Lord be now and evermore our ...
There, in the hymn to the Sun God, the Sun God is celebrated under his various names; last, as Biblius Adon. This is glossed by Notker as Biblius cantans. In other words, Notker interprets Adon as αδων, present participle of Attic αιδω‘to sing.’ This, Falk surmises, ...
The theme of the Variations movement is described in the Bennington program notes as a “solemn, lyrical hymn”. But there is much more to it than that. The theme is from the fifth of Tchaikovsky’s “Sixteen Songs for Children”, Opus 54, composed in 1883. The text that Tchaikovsky set...
As if the float of her hymn didn’t quiver the bones and lower the saints to their knees Still, never a day could spend its time without succumbing to the witnessing The adornment of Heaven’s earthbound kiss … but a veil upon splendor’s being ...
Our sense of joy was infectious. We could not contain it in our hearts. We all stood and formed a circle around the Holy Bible. We held each other’s hands and expressed our feelings. Our hand gestures and body movements became an expression of our joy. We sang a hymn of thanks and...
Bent to the starry Hunter’s sword at bay. — Bayard Taylor’s HymnteTaurus Taurus, the Bull, leTaureau of France, ilToro of Italy, and derStier of Germany, everywhere was one of the earliest and most noted constellations, perhaps the first established, because it marked the vernal equinox...