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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

The birth and death of St John the Baptist

July 12, 2015

The Forerunner and the Coming of the Lord

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In Liturgy Tags Kalendar, Kingdom, Saints

Laudato si’

June 28, 2015

The Bishop of Rome’s encyclical is welcome if inadequate

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In Society Tags World, Creation

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

The wounded side of Christ II

April 12, 2015

Further thoughts on this rich image

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In Liturgy Tags Easter, Iconography

Gloria in exELLCis?

April 11, 2015

A garbled Gloria betrays a misunderstanding of the nature of this text

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Tags Anglicanism, Chant, Translation

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

Pascha nostrum

April 10, 2015

Tracing the history of this Easter anthem

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Tags Anglicanism, Ceremonies, Easter, Rite

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

We would see Jesus

March 28, 2015

Looking high and low for the divine Presence

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In Liturgy Tags Kenosis, Lent, Transfiguration

...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

On the Way

March 8, 2015

Psalm 19 connects the creating, redeeming, and sustaining aspects of the divine

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In Liturgy Tags Creation, Incarnation, Psalms, Kenosis, Repentance

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

Welcome to Church Music

January 28, 2015

A forthcoming book from Church Publishing is sadly riddled with half-truths and errors

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In Music, Church Tags Reviews, Printing & Publishing

Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand

January 10, 2015

We cannot create, destroy, or bring about, but rather only discover, the Kingdom

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In Church, Society Tags Repentance, Kingdom, World

The Flight into Egypt

January 5, 2015

Christ’s coming into the world was and always is a threat to worldly power

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In Liturgy Tags Kalendar

Come, ye blessed of my Father

November 23, 2014

Seeking signs of the Kingdom in the pre-Advent season

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Tags Advent, Kingdom, Saints

The Lord is glorious in his saints

October 28, 2014

Baptism on All Saints’ Day reminds us that it is baptism into the Communion of Saints

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In Liturgy Tags Saints, Departed, Kalendar

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
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