Sentences with phrase «of hymns she sang»

Susan's memory for details of her childhood — and particularly for the lyrics of hymns she sang many years ago — is remarkable.

But how different is that from a school that rings a bell ahead of hymn singing in assembly, where pupils are obliged to wear caps or boaters, where the school charity is Christian Aid?

Not exact matches

For two hours, protesters sang hymns, prayed and chanted «Freedom of worship!»

When I discovered these hymns, all of a sudden I was singing about Christ instead of about my feelings.

As Pliny famously attested of the early Christians: «They sing hymns to Christ as God.»

This pattern resembled, in some respects, Bonhoeffer's organization of community life at Finkenwalde, with its antiphonal reading of the Psalms, stated hours of prayer, hymn singing, and silence.

Or the other end of the spectrum, mindless singing of 200 year old hymns.

Song books no longer used, use of overhead projectors for songs, very little singing of familiar hymns, taped music, piano playing for maybe one song, no longer have a choir, altar removed, one strong Sunday School class broken up, to name a few things happening.

It represents a lot of thought, writing and time... people hear the same passages of bible, sing the same hymns on many occasions, or use the same prayers....

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.

«We follow the ancient liturgy of the church (chanting the Kyrie, readings from scripture, chanting the Psalm, sermon, prayers of the people, Eucharist, benediction, etc.) We also sing the old hymns of the church.

They sing hymns accompanied by a piano, and no one leads the singing, and they sound shrill and awkward and I kind of love them for it.

But first, on nights like this, the nights of lament, we're also singing along — nursery rhymes, hymns, anthems, whatever — with each other because it's a form of prayer.

We said Compline and over the course of the evening sang him some hymns: «Come Thou Fount of Ev» ry Blessing,» «Lord of All Hopefulness,» and «Abide with Me.»

Occasionally I'm annoyed by a fly buzzing slowly past me (and I'm reminded of a line from a hymn my grandfather claimed to have sung: «There may be flies on you and me, but there ain't no flies on Jesus») Once in a while I feel twinges of boredom as the sermon wears on, or pangs of regret as my mind wanders back to the letters I meant to write the past week.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

My interest was further piqued when we sang a beautiful hymn, «O God of Every Nation,» a hymn I rarely hear in the conservative, nationalistic churches down South.

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.

I reckon there are more than a handful here that sing the hymns of the risen Christ on Sunday morning and drink, or eat, or spend, or puke, or sex, or systematically theologize their way into the icy numb during the rest of the week.

If in such moments we would listen to the wind in the trees, the waves curling on the beach, feet crunching in sand, and the song of the mockingbird as the evening sun sets, we would surely hear creator God singing hymns over us, his creation.

They'll sing the 18th century hymn written by Issac Watts, «Jesus shall reign where'er the sun» - a song chosen by the Getty's because of its historic links to Eric Liddle.

A sprinkling of random hymns and perhaps the singing of the ordinary is a comfort zone from which it is going to be difficult to shift parish priests, or indeed many bishops.

And I think that was clear in the way that he would describe biting into a summer tomato or in the way that he would sing one of these hymns.

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I am sure it would be a powerful motivation for many if they were to realise that singing the texts of the Mass would mean that there need be no further arguments about which hymns should be chosen.

Hymn and prayer book of the second temple it may have been, but obviously some of the psalms could never have been sung in connection with the sacrifices, and may well be grouped, as Professor Julius Bewer suggests, under the caption, «Private Worship outside of the Temple.»

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.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper, by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

This video, from the 2015 Eaux Claires music festival — featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama and The Lone Bellow — singing the spiritual hymn «Watch Over Us» will do the trick, and might even make you cry.

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.

The advantage of doing so is immediately apparent: rather than choosing an opening hymn, and later arguing about whether it was too happy - clappy or too sombre, the choir simply sings what is set for the Mass of the day.

Through class meetings, love feasts, and the singing of evangelical hymns, something of the joy experienced in conversion was retained and renewed.

The Ekklesia Project has also produced about a dozen booklets, with more to come, on specific practices of the church, such as preparing for marriage, hymn - singing, reading scripture, evangelizing and so on.

The story of the last supper ends with the singing of a hymn, after which «they went out to the Mount of Olives» (Mk 14:26 - 27; Mt 26:30 - 3 I; Lk 22:39).

On election day» a Sunday, of course» «from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the polling place.»

«Aren't there other ways of saying thank you to God than just singing hymns?»

The initiate is asked to kneel before a picture of the Guru Dev while his fellows also kneel and make their offerings and sing prescribed songs (hymns) of thanksgiving honoring the many former leaders of the Hindu tradition known as the School of Shankara.

They have an image of a never - ending sing - along in the sky, one great hymn after another, forever and ever, amen.

Recently, at the end of the show, Keillor did a tribute to all the new 40 - year - olds, those people born in March 1942, sung to a rewritten Gettysburg Address with the tune of «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» in the background.

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

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.

God made all kinds of people, some stupid and some less so, some left - handed and some not, some attracted to red headed people and some not, some able to sing hymns on pitch and some not, etc..

He has edited collections of songs and hymns from the world church (distributed by GIA Publications and Iona Books) and written The Singing Thing: A Case for Congregational Singing.

To Huitzilopochtli, mighty war god of the Aztecs, their leader to the promised land, a typical hymn is sung:

An anonymous Life of Ephrem tells how he wrote his hymns and sang them to the harp, teaching them to the «Daughters of the covenant».

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.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

Think, for example, of the spiritual lift which comes from being a part of a congregation singing the mighty Easter hymns of renewal.