Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Your holy praise Tradition holds that St. Yared ascended to Heaven supported by angels Seraph and Cherub, singing "Holy! Holy! Holy!", a paraphrase of Ancient of Days in Book of Daniel. In addition, it augmented supernatural entities bolstered him: three white angels, and three white birds singing with animals and beasts.
The Herald Angels sing, / 'Glory to the new-born King ' ". [2] In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems —Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg 's invention of movable type , and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark!
Part 2, "Angels in Holy Scripture", begins with a spoken passage "Angels were the first creatures God made" by Thomas Heywood, followed by two biblical meetings with an angel, of Jacob in movement 3a (Genesis 28:10–12, 16–17), and Elisha in movement 3b (2 Kings 6:15–16), both set for choir and organ.
" Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") is a Christian hymn known also as the Greater Doxology (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or Gloria Patri) and the Angelic Hymn [1] [2] /Hymn of the Angels. [3]
Like the 1816 "Angels from the Realms of Glory", the lyrics of "Angels We Have Heard on High" are inspired by, but not an exact translation of, the traditional French carol known as "Les Anges dans nos campagnes" ("the angels in our countryside"), whose first known publication was in 1842. [3] The music was attributed to "W. M.".
May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once (a) poor (man), may you have eternal rest." The melody of In paradisum In the Masses for the dead, this antiphon is sung in procession on the way from the final blessing of the corpse in church to the graveyard where burial takes place.
It signals the arrival of the Shabbat, welcoming the angels who accompany a person home on the eve of the Shabbat. The custom of singing "Shalom Aleichem" on Friday night before Eshet Ḥayil and Kiddush is now nearly universal among religious Jews. There are many tunes to the song, and many recite each stanza is recited 3 times. [1]
the King of angels: Come, let us adore (3x) the Lord. God of God, light of light, he who the pregnant maiden's organs bear, Very God, begotten, not created: Come, let us adore (3x) the Lord. Oh, that a choir of angels would sing; That the court of heaven would sing, Glory, glory to God in the highest, Come, let us adore (3x) the Lord.