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In the German version, it does not rhyme. [6] The first stanza is written in the first person, declaring that the singer supports the view. The second stanza is focused on the way of Jesus through death to life, and opens the view to a group, beginning saying "das sagt uns dein Wort" (Your word tells us that).
The hymn appeared in both High German, such as a Frankfurt print of 1563, [2] and in Low German spoken mainly in northern Germany, such as the 1565 hymnal Enchiridion geistliker leder und Psalmen from Hamburg, titled "Ein gebedt tho Christo umme ein salich affscheidt uth dissem bedröneden leuende" (A prayer to Christ for a blessed departure from this troubled life). [3]
Gotteslob ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium.First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speaking Catholics, succeeding the first common German hymnal, the 1975 edition of the same name.
The earliest known publication of the common table prayer was in German, in the schoolbook Neues und nützliches SchulBuch für die Jugend biß ins zehente oder zwölffte Jahr (New and useful schoolbook for youth up to the tenth or twelfth year), written by Johann Conrad Quensen and published in Hannover and Wolfenbüttel in 1698.
The name of Jesus is at the heart of Christian prayer. All liturgical prayers conclude with the words "through our Lord Jesus Christ". The Hail Mary reaches its high point in the words "blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus". The Eastern prayer of the heart, the Jesus Prayer, says: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
The song of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL) appears in the German Protestant hymnal of 1995 as EG 272. [ 5 ] A version combining the first stanza with a second stanza by an anonymous author, that praises Jesus as a reason for hope, became part of the German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 2013, as GL 400 in the section Leben in Gott – Lob ...
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Other hymn versions of the Lord's Prayer from the 16th and 20th-century have adopted the same tune, known as "Vater unser" and "Old 112th". [5] The hymn was published in Leipzig in 1539 in Valentin Schumann's hymnal Gesangbuch, [5] with a title explaining "The Lord's Prayer briefly expounded and turned into metre". It was likely first published ...