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Saints and saints

November 3, 2015

Conflating All Saints and All Souls robs us of the obligations and opportunities of each

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In Liturgy Tags Departed, Heaven, Martyrs, Saints

O quanta qualia

November 1, 2015

Considering Abelard’s fine hymn on All Saints’ Day

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Hymns, Translation, Heaven, Saints

I love thy kingdom, Lord

August 8, 2015

Church, Kingdom, and the earliest American hymn still in general use

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In Liturgy Tags Heaven, Hymns, Kingdom

Glorious things of thee are spoken

August 25, 2014

Connecting Newton’s fine hymn to the Transfiguration, Holy Cross Day, and Sukkoth

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Advent, Agricultural festivals, Heaven, Eucharist, Hymns, Kenosis, Transfiguration

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

April 22, 2014

Understanding the symbolism in this Easter Office hymn

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Departed, Easter, Hymns, Heaven

Adam lay i-bounden

March 9, 2014

Understanding a popular carol about the Fall and redemption

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Ascesis, Choral literature, Departed, Heaven, Hymns, Holy Week, Incarnation, Theosis, Kenosis, Lent, Mary, Transfiguration

The case of the missing thalamus

December 16, 2013

An important scriptural image found in many Advent texts is missing from the Hymnal

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In Liturgy Tags Advent, Church, Epiphany, Heaven, Incarnation, Mary, Hymns, Translation

St Mary the Virgin

August 15, 2013

Understanding the Assumption from an Anglican perspective

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In Liturgy Tags Anglicanism, Heaven, Hymns, Mary, Rite, Saints

Hierusalem my happie home

January 31, 2013

The full text of this fine sixteenth-century hymn

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In Liturgy Tags Heaven, Hymns