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Again, it is chanted in place of "God is the Lord...", but this time is followed by the Troparia of the Departed. The Alleluia is intoned by the deacon (or the priest, if no deacon is available): Deacon: "Alleluia, in the 8th tone: Blessed are they whom Thou hast chosen and taken unto Thyself, O Lord." Choir: "Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia."
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who sanctified us with His commandments, and hoped for us, and with love and intent invested us with His sacred Sabbath, as a memorial to the deed of Creation. It is the first among the holy festivals, commemorating the exodus from Egypt.
Augustine: Let the unyielding then wrangle and quarrel about earthly and temporal things, the meek are blessed, for they shall inherit the earth, and not be rooted out of it; that earth of which it is said in the Psalms, Thy lot is in the land of the living, (Ps. 142:5.) meaning the fixedness of a perpetual inheritance, in which the soul that ...
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Pseudo-Chrysostom: And they who weep for their own sins are blessed, but much more so who weep for others’ sins; so should all teachers do. [4] Jerome: For the mourning here meant is not for the dead by common course of nature, but for the dead in sins, and vices. Thus Samuel mourned for Saul, thus the Apostle Paul mourned for those who had ...
The Greek word makarios cannot adequately be rendered as "blessed" nor "happy", as it is rather 'a term of congratulation and recommendation', [3] that can also mean "satisfied" (as in Psalm 1:1). [4] The word purity is not believed to refer to one who was ritually cleansed, but rather to internal spiritual purity as noted by the "in heart ...
Of David. / Blessed be the LORD, my rock, wo trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war Text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 144:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com; Psalm 144 / Refrain: Happy are the people who have the Lord for their God. Church of England; Psalm 144 at biblegateway.com
The verse appears on John Marston's grave in the video game Red Dead Redemption. This verse was famously misprinted in the second edition of the Geneva Bible as "blessed are the placemakers." This was parodied in Monty Python 's Life of Brian where the crowd listening to the sermon mishears it as "blessed are the cheesemakers" and then begin to ...