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Advent songs (German: Adventslieder) are songs and hymns intended for Advent, the four weeks of preparation for Christmas. Topics of the time of expectation are the hope for a Messiah , prophecies, and the symbolism of light, among others.
He was a Catholic theologian who was influential in the first common Catholic hymnal in German, Gotteslob of 1975. [2] The song appeared in the 2013 edition as GL 221, in the section for Advent. [1] [3] In the Bavarian edition of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch, it is EG 540. [2] It is part of several songbooks. [4]
" Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent" (We announce the dear Advent to you) is an Advent song with German text by Maria Ferschl written in 1954, and a melody by Heinrich Rohr. The song is part of the German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch , the Catholic Gotteslob and many songbooks.
The song is based on the call of the prophet Isaiah to prepare the way for the Lord (Isaiah 40:3), which is quoted in the Gospel of Luke, Luke 3:4, referring to John the Baptist. [3] The song is in five stanzas of four lines each. [1] The first stanza calls to sing merrily in Advent and let go of mourning.
"Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" ("Maria walks amid the thorns", or literally "Mary walked through a wood of thorn") is a German Advent song. By origin it was a pilgrimage song that initially was spread orally in the 19th century, starting in the Catholic Eichsfeld.
This is a list of original Roman Catholic hymns. The list does not contain hymns originating from other Christian traditions despite occasional usage in Roman Catholic churches. The list has hymns in Latin and English.
The later hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus" borrows two lines from the hymn (Infirma nostri corporis — Virtute firmans perpeti). "Veni redemptor gentium" was particularly popular in Germany where Martin Luther translated it into German as "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland," which then he, or possibly Johann Walter, set as a chorale, based on the original plainchant. [3]
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