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Phos Hilaron is to be sung at the lighting of lamps in the evening and so is sometimes known as the “Lamp-lighting Hymn”. Despite some of the words to the other three songs being from Scripture or in one case dated to around 150, Phos Hilaron is the first to be considered an actual hymn in the modern sense.
Italicised album names indicate an instrumental album. A number in brackets after the song title means that there have been different songs with the same name. If a particular song is on more than one album, all albums are listed alphabetically. A number in brackets after the album name indicates the version number of that song in chronological ...
In movement 2 she alludes to the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17:4), movement 3 sees the incomprehensible power of Jesus everywhere, not restricted to a certain location. He will lift me to his right hand, according to Matthew 25:33 , and judge me right, according to the closing chorale, the fourth stanza of Matthäus Avenarius ' " O Jesu ...
The final song, "Transfiguration", is a "bittersweet note of Jesus' requisite suffering". [2] "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is based on a first-person account by The Misfit character from the Flannery O'Connor short story of the same name. [2] The lyrics of the title song, "Seven Swans," loosely allude to the events of the Book of Revelation.
The hymn is prominently featured in the pilot episode of the comedy programme Mr. Bean, where the title character is in church when the congregation sings "All Creatures of Our God and King", but he has no hymnal and his neighbour, Mr. Sprout, refuses to share due to Mr. Bean annoying him repeatedly. Consequently, he mumbles through most of the ...
La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ ("The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ") is an oratorio written between 1965 and 1969 [1] by Olivier Messiaen. Based on the account found in the synoptic gospels of Jesus' transfiguration , its writing is on a colossal scale, requiring around two-hundred performers.
A Theotokion (Greek: Θεοτοκίον; pl. Greek: Θεοτοκία, romanized: Theotokia) [1] is a hymn to Mary the Theotokos (Greek: Θεοτόκος, lit. 'God-bearer'), which is read or chanted ( troparion or sticheron ) during the canonical hours and Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, as well as in the ...
The Apolytikion (Greek: Ἀπολυτίκιον) or Dismissal Hymn is a troparion (a short hymn of one stanza) said or sung at Orthodox Christian worship services. The apolytikion summarizes the feast being celebrated that day. It is chanted at Vespers, Matins and the Divine Liturgy; and it is read at each of the Little Hours.