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Praise the Lord is a Christian greeting phrase used in various parts of the world in English, as well as other languages. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The salutation is derived from the Bible , where it and related phrases occurs around two hundred and fifty times (cf. Psalm 117:1–2 ).
The morning offering has been an old practice in the Church but it started to spread largely through the Apostleship of Prayer, started by Fr. Francis X. Gautrelet, S.J., and especially through the book written by another Jesuit, Fr. Henri Ramière, S.J., who in 1861 adapted the Apostleship of Prayer for parishes and various Catholic institutions, and made it known by his book "The Apostleship ...
Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. These words were written in 1674 by Thomas Ken [7] as the final verse of two hymns, "Awake, my soul, and with the sun" [8] and "Glory to thee, my God, this night," [9] intended for morning and evening worship at Winchester College.
Alleluia (/ ˌ ɑː l ə ˈ l ʊ j ə,-j ɑː / AL-ə-LOO-yə, -yah; from Hebrew הללויה 'praise Yah') is a phrase in Christianity used to give praise to God. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Christian worship , Alleluia is used as a liturgical chant in which that word is combined with verses of scripture, usually from the Psalms . [ 4 ]
"Laudate Deum" (Praise God) is a frequent refrain in several psalms, including Psalm 148, which tells the heavens and the angels and the sun and moon to praise the Lord. The new document, anticipated pope Francis at that time, is "a look at what has happened" since 2015 and a look at what still "needs to be done."
Psalm 145 is an alphabetic acrostic, the initial letter of each verse being the Hebrew alphabet in sequence. For this purpose, the usual Hebrew numbering of verse 1, which begins with the title, "A Psalm of David", is ignored in favor of the non-Hebrew numbering which treats verse 1 as beginning ארוממך ( Aromimkha , "I will exalt You").
Since the reform of the Roman Rite liturgy in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, the Liturgy of the Hours has a section of Psalm 119, corresponding to a single letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in the midday canonical hour on each day of the four-week cycle except on Monday of the first week (when the second half of Psalm 19 (18), which is ...
In the library of Avignon there is preserved a prayer book of Cardinal Pierre de Luxembourg (died 1387), which contains the prayer in practically the same form as that in which it appears today. It has also been found inscribed on one of the gates of the Alcázar of Seville , which dates back to the time of Pedro the Cruel (1350–1369).