Posts in Comfortable Words tagged ‘Hymns’
In the Tretyakov Gallery, Russia. Public domain image.
A hymn to the Virgin Mary, sung at the communion service of the Eastern churches.
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From Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A hymn sung in the weeks after Easter, imagining how Gabriel brought the news of Christ’s resurrection to Mary.
From a 12th-century Life of St Cuthbert, via the British Library and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A short hymn from the later 11th century, in praise of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.
A hymn from the Evensong of the Eastern Churches.
Anonymous, from 15th century Rhodes. Via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A song placed on the lips of the Virgin Mary, as she bent over her newborn child.
© P. Horálek/ESO, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
A meditation on the Psalms, and on the evidence for the existence of God that is plain for every eye to see.