19 Words to use with hymns

In the Western Church, St. Hilary of Potiers (370) composed a hymn book for his church.

Then follow the hymn-tunes, which are adapted not only to the ordinary metres, but also to all the irregular metres which are to be found in any collection of hymns which is known to be used in the country.

Was it ignorance or prudence that guided the early hymn writers in their adoption of popular poetic form?

One hundred and one hymn stories.

To combat the Arians, who spread their errors by verse set to popular airs, St. Ambrose, it is said, introduced public liturgical hymn-singing in his church in Milan, and his example was followed gradually through the Western Church.

Illustrated hymn talks.

THIRKIELD, GILBERT H. SEE Hymns of faith and life for church worship, hymn festivals, assemblies and schools.

Christian hymns number 2, By Vana P. Raye, pseud. of Lloyd Otis Sanderson, NM: editing, words & music.

The Three Families were in the habit, during the Removal of the sacred vessels after sacrifice, of using the hymn commencing, "Harmoniously the Princes Draw near with reverent tread, Assisting in his worship Heaven's Son, the great and dread.

We find ourselves now in the zone of hymn-writing.

SEE Manual of select Catholic hymns devotions.

Indeed, it is the only time That with thy glory doth best chime: All now are stirring; every field Full hymns doth yield; The whole creation shakes off night, And for thy shadow looks the light; Stars now vanish without number; Sleepy planets set and slumber; The pursy clouds disband and scatter; All expect some sudden matter; Not one beam triumphs, but, from far, That morning-star.

Not until night fell did the hymns cease and the crowd dwindle away.

Raise me to love intense; O Father, source of love divine, My powers to love and hymn incline! While God my Father I revere, Nor all hell powers, nor death I fear; I am my Father's care; His succours present are. All comes from my loved Father's will, And that sweet name intends no ill.

'Tis the same hymn; a hymn indistinct, lisping, profound.

And the Catholic De Maistre, so famed for his fair-minded criticisms, wrote of the new hymn-makers' works: "They make a certain noise in the ear, but they never breathe prayer, because their writers were all alone (i.e., unaided by the grace and guidance of the Holy Spirit) when they composed them."

It includes the very best hymn translations by Catholic authors, John Dryden, Cardinal Newman, Father Caswall, etc. (Burns & Gates.

The second hymn treats of the world-mountain, the Atlas of the Greeks, which supports the heaven with its stars, and is rooted in Hades.

So too, and for the same reason, was Lavater's hymn beginning, O Jesus Christus, wachs in mir a hymn with which we became acquainted soon after our marriage, and which I do not doubt she repeated to herself many thousands of times.

19 Words to use with  hymns