We see the windows lighted, Virgin Mary, City of God, by every hymn we raise With chipped and broken voices, and our feeble Vision guesses sacred silhouettes. But when the little Seed fell in the ...

Neale, Mediaeval Hymns, 1851, additional verses and alternative translations ... In addition, since Vatican II, Catholic teaching has emphasized that Advent should ritualize three "comings" - the ...

Advent is the beginning of the spiritual year ... Austria is the birthplace of one of the most beloved Christmas hymns, ...

Christmas symbols we all know and love. N othing says “Christmas” like the sights, smells and sounds of the season: From ...

Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon ...

Catholic, Orthodox, and Assyrian Christians celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross with prayers, hymns, and ...

York Minster is preparing to mark Advent and Christmas with a programme of new services and events for 2024, alongside ...

It’s one of the most popular hymns in the Christian songbook – but apparently the benefits of Amazing Grace are not purely spiritual. For scientists have discovered that belting out the much ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The second wave of hymns to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ global hymn book has been added with nine new additions. The new additions include songs familiar ...

As we prepare for the festive season many of us will be ticking off a number of tasks, from decorating the tree to writing ...

In one of several surviving hymns, written in the final centuries ... Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium. With the advent of the reign of Augustus in 27 BCE, life in the provincial ...

“To prepare for Christmas, the liturgy offers us the time of Advent, which this year begins ... [the local custom of singing joyful hymns even though it is still the penitential season of ...