Early Christian Hymns: Translations of the Verses of the Most Notable Latin Writers of the Early and Middle AgesDaniel Joseph Donahoe |
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adore Alleluia behold blessed blest blood born bosom bring Christ church cleanse crime cross crown cruel dear Lord death deeds Deus didst divine eternal everlasting evermore evil faith Father glory feast fire following hymns Forever reigning forevermore fount glory meet God the Father God's grace grief hear hearts holy fire Holy Paraclete honour hope HYMN TO ST Jesus King lift light living martyr MORNING HYMN mother night o'er Pange Lingua Paraclete peace PIERRE ABELARD pray prayers psalms Rabanus Maurus Rector Potens Redeemer Rex Deus Roman Breviary sacred saints salvation saving Saviour seek shame shining Sire and Paraclete Sire and Spirit skies sole-begotten sole-born song of praise sorrow souls stain stars sweet reward tears THEODULPHUS thine thou art thy holy thy love thy mercy thy name thy sweet thy tender thy throne tree unto thee Verbum Supernum Prodiens Virgin voice wondrous word wounds
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Page 199 - It is said that it has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible.
Page 209 - To God the father, and the Son, And Holy Spirit, three in one, By Men and Angels, be there given All Glory, both in Earth and Htaven.
Page 239 - Redeemed, in joys eternal live ! Laud, Honour, Virtue, Glory, be To God The Father and The Son, And Holy Paraclete to Thee, [74] For CHRISTMAS DAY and up to THE CIRCUMCISION (York, Hereford, and other Breviaries) ; at COMPLINE and other times. Corde natus ex Parentis. OFFSPRING of Th...
Page 88 - ... generation of praying monks, it is no wonder that the feeling grew that they too were inspired by the Holy Spirit. The legend long prevailed in the Middle Ages that Gregory the Great one night had a vision in which the Church appeared to him in the form of an angel, magnificently attired, upon whose mantle was written the whole art of music, with all the forms of its melodies and notes. The pope prayed God to give him the power of recollecting all that he saw; and after he awoke a dove appeared,...
Page 175 - ... still continued to inflame its affections from that, its beloved object, which he seemed to read in every line. St. Thomas Aquinas coming one day to pay a visit to our saint, asked him in what books he had learned his sacred science. St. Bonaventure, pointing to his crucifix before him, said : " This is the source of all my knowledge. I study only Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Page 175 - ... theology. St. Thomas Aquinas is said to have visited him one day and asked him in what books he had learned his sacred science. St. Bonaventure pointed to his crucifix and said: "This is the source of all my knowledge. I study only Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Page 18 - Christi pervia, &c. Most of the hymns which occur in the daily or ferial office in the Latin Church seem to be St. Ambrose's. This holy doctor is said to have first introduced into the West the custom of singing hymns in the church. Those which he made are so composed, that the sense ends at the fourth verse, that they may be sung by two chorusses.
Page 139 - ... from that steady ache of misery which in human life is even more common than crisis and so a more insistent problem. When we get up tomorrow morning, we may well be able to do without our tragic awareness for an hour or two but we shall desperately need our sense of the comic. Tragedy says, with the Book of Common Prayer: "In the midst of life we are in death.
Page 255 - ... Such love among Thy flocks below Thou kindlest at the fires above. Dear Christ in pity for our woe Thou didst Thyself as victim give, The cruel pangs to undergo, To ope Thy breast that man might live.
Page 3 - Jerom says,(4) that he was a most eloquent man, and the trumpet of the Latins against the Arians ; and in another place, that in St. Cyprian and St. Hilary, God had transplanted two fair cedars out of the world into his church.