Hymns

Posts in Comfortable Words tagged ‘Hymns’

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In the Tretyakov Gallery, Russia. Public domain image.

In Thee is All Creation Glad St John Damascene

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.

The Angel Cried The Eastern Service Books

A hymn sung in the weeks after Easter, imagining how Gabriel brought the news of Christ’s resurrection to Mary.

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From a 12th-century Life of St Cuthbert, via the British Library and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

A Hymn for St Cuthbert An Anglo-Saxon Hymnarium

A short hymn from the later 11th century, in praise of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.

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From Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

O Gladsome Light Robert Bridges

A hymn from the Evensong of the Eastern Churches.

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Anonymous, from 15th century Rhodes. Via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Teach Me, for I Do Not Know St Ephraim the Syrian

A song placed on the lips of the Virgin Mary, as she bent over her newborn child.

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© P. Horálek/ESO, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Spacious Firmament on High Joseph Addison

A meditation on the Psalms, and on the evidence for the existence of God that is plain for every eye to see.

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