Posts in Comfortable Words tagged ‘Hymns’
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Eastertide
April 13 os
© Mosherf (Moshe Sherf Landscape Photography), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
An eighth-century hymn of the Greek Church, for Easter Day
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The most famous of all Charles Wesley’s Christmas hymns celebrates the birth of Christ, in company with the shepherds of Bethlehem.
By Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp (1612–1652), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A Christmas hymn from the seventeenth century, recalling the song the angels sang to the shepherds of Bethlehem.
By James Tissot (1836-1902), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A hymn looking to the coming of Christ in judgement, sung at the Wesleys’ New Year’s Eve watch-nights.
© Michael Boulton, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 generic.
A short prayer from the Sarum Missal, for the night before Christmas.
© Jonathan Billinger, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.
A hymn for the morning, from the Mediaeval service books of the Roman Church.
© Auckland Museum, CC BY 4.0.
A hymn addressed to the Holy Spirit as God’s royal seal upon the heart.
© J. Hannan-Briggs, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.
A Sequence for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, from the Sarum Use.