Not exact matches
At age fifty - eight, he invited
gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to record with his band, and Ellington was so delighted with the resulting version of his
hymn «Come Sunday,» performed mostly unaccompanied, that he brought Jackson back to the studio the next day to
sing it again — not for the record, but just for him.
Men of every nationality, in all churches, listen to the same
gospel,
sing the same
hymns, read the same Bible, and revere the same Lord.
It can be difficult to try to meet what are often competing demands: some people want
gospel hymns, some want rock, some want Lutheran chorales, still others don't want to
sing at all and expect the choir to do it.
Quite often it is the priest who has determined which
hymns are to be
sung, at the same time ruling out the possibility of a properly
sung Mass by himself refusing to
sing the orations, the preface, or indeed the
gospel.
An international
hymn sing - song on Sunday is raising awareness about parts of the world where there is little or no access to the
gospel.
Inside their church, named after their homeland's greatest saint, they heard the
gospel read in their native tongue and
sang the
hymns of their grandfathers.
St. Ephrem has several
hymns in honour of St. Thomas in which he
sings of the apostle's preaching of the
Gospel in India, of the bringing of his bones to Edessa, of the honour that the Edessene church got thereby, and of the miracles wrought at the shrine.
«Glory for me», the old
gospel -
hymn is supposed to have
sung — but the very words show that the
hymn is not about the
gospel, for the
gospel speaks of «Glory to God», in whose «glory» all good is contained.