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Concluding hymns and ‘processions’

March 21, 2017

A look at the rubrics and implications of hymns at the end of Mass

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Processions, Hymns, Rite

Hymns of Christopher Wordsworth

April 18, 2016

A doxological, doctrinal, ecclesial, and liturgical companion to the Prayer Book

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns

Crux fidelis

March 21, 2016

Considering Fortunatus’s great hymn on the Cross

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In Liturgy Tags Holy Week, Hymns, Translation

Old 113th and simple chant

March 7, 2016

A venerable Reformation tune points the way to more authentically liturgical music

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Chant, Hymns

My lovely one

February 29, 2016

The poetry of Edward Taylor, and Finzi’s setting of same

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In Music Tags Eucharist, Hymns, Poems

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

January 18, 2016

The Hymnal version is far from the original – perhaps to its, and our, benefit

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns, Translation, Eucharist

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

Veiled in flesh

May 10, 2015

Christ clothed in our flesh, and we clothed with Him

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Ascension, Baptism, Choral literature, Easter, Hymns, Iconography, Incarnation, Mary, Theosis

Father, we thank thee who hast planted

April 10, 2015

A look at another fine Bland Tucker hymn based on an early Christian source

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In Liturgy Tags Agricultural festivals, Church, Eucharist, Kingdom, Hymns

Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr

April 5, 2015

The origins of this Easter Gloria paraphrase, first sung on this date in 1523

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Anglicanism, Chant, Easter, Hymns, Translation, Printing & Publishing

...not to condemn mankind

March 15, 2015

The early Christian source of this fine Bland Tucker hymn

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Hymns, Printing & Publishing

The Sacrifice of Praise

January 30, 2015

The full text and real import of Pierpoint’s ‘For the beauty of the earth’

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In Liturgy Tags Eucharist, Hymns

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

September 14, 2014

Connecting Holy Cross Day, the Transfiguration, and the Feast of Tabernacles

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In Liturgy Tags Advent, Agricultural festivals, Holy Week, Hymns, Kalendar, Kenosis

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

Discerning the Body

June 19, 2014

Focusing on Christ’s Presence in the Sacrament – and finding it elsewhere

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In Liturgy Tags Eucharist, Church, Hymns

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

Lord, stay with us

April 20, 2014

Finding the Emmaus account in the Hymnal

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In Liturgy Tags Easter, Eucharist, Hymns

The Sunday of the Passion

April 13, 2014

Children at the Triumphal Entry, and the Harrowing of Hell

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In Liturgy Tags Advent, Departed, Holy Week, Hymns, Incarnation, Kenosis

The Annunciation

March 25, 2014

The Hymnal version of ‘Quem terra, pontus, sidera’ misses out on rich language

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns, Incarnation, Mary, Translation
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