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What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At ...
The Church in earth and heaven. 2. On this glad day the glorious Sun Of righteousness arose, On my benighted soul he shone, And filled it with repose. 3. Sudden expired the legal strife; 'Twas then I ceased to grieve. My second, real, living life, I then began to live. 4. Then with my heart I first believed, Believed with faith divine;
The ideas of both the German Reformation and Counter-Reformation stimulated hymn and religious poetry writing among both Catholics and Protestants, e.g. the Lutheran hymns of Martin Luther, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, and Paul Gerhardt (oft used in the chorales of Johann Sebastian Bach), the Calvinist hymns of Gerhard Tersteegen, and the ...
In addition to poems of welcome to visiting dignitaries, Crosby wrote songs of a political nature, such as about the major battles of the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. [150] By the 1840 US Presidential election, she was "an ardent Democrat" and wrote verse against Whig candidate (and ultimate winner) William Henry Harrison ...
First Congregational Church senior choir members, from left to right, Ann Cairns, Linda Divris, Sally Martin and Rachel Smith prepare to sing during First Congregational Church's 300th anniversary ...
Thomas Traherne (/ t r ə ˈ h ɑːr n /; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on 27 September.
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Betjeman ruled against the title, but liked the idea, although he was keen that the film should be primarily about the Church and its people, and not himself. [4] [5] Following this early proposal, Mirzoeff and Betjeman realised that a study of the whole Church would be too ambitious, and instead decided to set the film within one diocese. [5]