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"The Virgin's Cradle Hymn" is a short lullaby text. It was collected while on a tour of Germany by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and published in his Sibylline Leaves of 1817. [ 1 ] According to his own note, Coleridge copied the Latin text from a "print of the Blessed Virgin in a Catholic village in Germany", which he later ...
My Jesus, Life from heaven! I come, and unto Thee I bear What Thou to me hast given. Receive it, for 'tis mind and soul, Heart, spirit, strength—receive it all, And deign to let it please Thee. When I as yet had not been born, Then hadst Thou been born for me And chosen me to be Thine own, Thy mercy shedding o'er me. Before I by Thy hand was ...
The hymn discusses the experience of Christian believers that Jesus Christ lives within their hearts, which is scriptural in the Word of God: “I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.”—Galatians 2:20, and “That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith.”—Ephesians 3:17 ...
Each stanza begins with "All to Jesus I surrender". The hymn's chorus repeats "I surrender all" three times, and an additional two times in the men's part. The entire hymn, if sung with each refrain and second-voice part, contains the word "surrender" 30 times, and the word "all" 43 times. [8] The hymn's first stanza stresses complete surrender ...
He quickly jotted down the lyrics and asked the soloist to sing the song that night. The lyrics of the song convicted the young man's heart and he ended up staying and listening to the message. When the preacher gave the altar call at the end of the night, the soloist got up and went to the front of the tent and accepted Jesus into his heart. [1]
Ignatius offers his sword to an image of Our Lady of Montserrat.. Suscipe (pronounced "SOOS-chee-peh") is the Latin word for 'receive'. While the term was popularized by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, who incorporated it into his Spiritual Exercises in the early sixteenth century, it goes back to monastic profession, in reciting Psalm 119.
St. Thomas Aquinas (+1274) composed a Prayer of Thanksgiving after Communion that became a classic: I thank You, O holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who have deigned, not through any merits of mine, but out of the condescension of Your goodness, to satisfy me a sinner, Your unworthy servant, with the precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
"Follow On", also known in certain cases as "Down In The Valley With My Saviour I Would Go" [1] and "I Will Follow Jesus", is a Christian hymn written in 1878 by William Orcutt Cushing. [2] The music for it was composed in 1880 by both Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane .