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Doxology. A doxology ( Ancient Greek: δοξολογία doxologia, from δόξα, doxa 'glory' and - λογία, - logia 'saying') [ 1][ 2][ 3] is a short hymn of praises to God in various forms of Christian worship, often added to the end of canticles, psalms, and hymns. The tradition derives from a similar practice in the Jewish synagogue ...
Reformed Christianity. The regulative principle of worship is a Christian doctrine, held by some Calvinists and Anabaptists, that God commands churches to conduct public services of worship using certain distinct elements affirmatively found in scripture, and conversely, that God prohibits any and all other practices in public worship.
Canticle of Simeon (Nunc dimittis) Canticle of the Blessed Virgin (Magnificat) Canticle of the Three Children. Careworn Mother Stood Attending. Come, Creator Spirit. Come Down, O Love Divine. Come, Holy Ghost. Come, Lord, and Tarry Not. Come My Way, My Truth, My Life.
The creed itself uses the language of public worship by speaking of the worship of God rather than the language of belief ("Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God"). In the medieval Catholic Church, the creed was recited following the Sunday sermon or at the Sunday Office of Prime. [18] The creed was often set to music and used in ...
The Benedictus (also Song of Zechariah or Canticle of Zachary ), given in Gospel of Luke 1:68–79, is one of the three canticles in the first two chapters of this Gospel, the other two being the "Magnificat" and the "Nunc dimittis". The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the circumcision of his son ...
The movement that would develop into the Moravian Church was started by a Catholic priest named Jan Hus (in English John Hus) in the early 15th century. The Church was established as a reaction to practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Hus wanted to return the Church in Bohemia and Moravia to the practices of early Christianity: performing the ...
The first meaning that Catholics attach to the expression "Body of Christ" is the Catholic Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes with approval, as "summing up the faith of the holy doctors and the good sense of the believer", the reply of Saint Joan of Arc to her judges: "About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're ...
v. t. e. Church singing, Tacuinum Sanitatis Casanatensis (14th century) Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn .