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The Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers of the third century frequently mention Terce, Sext, and None as hours for daily prayers. [5] Tertullian, around the year 200, recommended, in addition to the obligatory morning and evening prayers, the use of the third, sixth and ninth hours of daylight to remind oneself to pray.
Christ hath known" Gabriel Gillett: English 1906 The English Hymnal No. 118 (p. 162) "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" O Lamb of God, innocent Nikolaus Decius: Nikolaus Decius: German 1531 based on Agnus Dei "Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld" A Lambkin goes and bears the guilt Paul Gerhardt "An Wasserflüssen Babylon" German 1647 "Lift High ...
(p. iv) The Offices of Worship and Hymns are the Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged (1891). Also contains an Index to the First Lines of all the Stanzas (to p. 475), and an Alphabetical List of Tunes (to p. 479). The Moravian Hymn Book authorized for use in the British Province of the Moravian Church (1969).
In 1948, a new hymnbook that replaced both the Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927) and the Deseret Sunday School Songs was published under the title Hymns: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as the official hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1948 to 1985. The 1948 edition included 387 hymns.
Each hymn in the Psalmody was cross-referenced by page number to the "Manchester Hymnal" and only used a few verses of the full hymn text. In many respects, the Latter-day Saints' Psalmody represented a high-water mark in LDS hymnody. By today's standards many of the hymns are quite challenging, even for choirs, let alone congregational singing.
The book contains a table of contents, followed by a preface with a message from the church's first presidency, which encourages church members to use the hymn book at meetings and in their homes to invite the spirit and to teach doctrine. The hymn section is divided into thematic groups:
It was based around a hymn in honor of the Peruvian saint Martin de Porres, two other short works, "Anima Christi" and "Praise the Lord". [6] The first official Mass in English in the United States was held during the 1964 National Liturgical Conference in St Louis. [7]
The hymn 'Te Deum' is sung or recited in the Liturgy of the Hours and in thanksgiving to God for a special blessing such as the election of a pope, the consecration of a bishop, the canonization of a saint, [22] on December 31st to thank the Lord for the past year. [23] The hymn 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' is sung or recited at Mass, after the ...