Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Religious - Hymns

Hymns are more than beautiful musical compositions; they provide us with a heightened language for praising and speaking to God, all while teaching us theology that reflects both the depth and complexity of Our Lord.

Sacred hymns in our day have given way to "fifth-rate poetry set to fourth-rate music," as C.S. Lewis once remarked. At times, the music used in worship can make us feel as though the culture is usurping the Church rather than being transfigured by it. There is a clear and present need to resurrect those distinctively different songs with a distinctively...

This is a reprint of the classic 1920 edition of the St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. This book is popular with traditionalists who either grew up in the pre-Vatican II era or those who are searching for hymns they remember from their youth but can't find in today's hymnals. The original copies of this hymnal are becoming harder and harder to find so we are offering up a faithful reprint here. Description from the author: A complete Collection of approved English and Latin Hymns, Liturgical Motets and appropriate Devotional Music for the various seasons of the Liturgical Year....

World's first Opera-musical Style epic mega poem of Sangit-Shri-Krishna-Ramayan is composed in 233 musical short stories of Shri Krishna Kanhaiya, Yogeshvara Shri Krishna, Shri Rama Chandra and Vir Hanuman. The stories are composed in 5205 Chaupais, 7068 Dohas, 501 Chhandas, 2422 Shlokas and 765in 233 short stories, plus their side stories, illustrating the wonderful, emotive, amusing, inspirational, educational and divine deeds of Shri Krishn Brand New, all original, devotional, inspirational, spiritual, ethical, joyful and...

The lives that shaped the songs that shape our faith

Their stories and lives are seldom considered or known, yet their works and influence are felt almost every day somewhere in the world and have been for centuries.

They are the hymnists and their gift to the world for centuries and for the future are found in the beautiful words of their hymns.

Hymnists are the poets of the spirit, the leaders of light who pull us from the dark and who help show the way back to clarity and purpose in our lives based on faith and redemption. Their hymns have survived...

In his teaching and preaching, Jesus often used parables as “means of revelation.”  Theologians and biblical scholars have often referred to a pattern of “revelation and response” which constitutes an essential aspect of Christian worship.  Within that pattern, those who gather for worship encounter revelation through scripture, symbols, prayer, preaching and other means.  Worshipers in turn, respond to revelation in a variety of ways.  One of the most prevalent vehicles is congregational song.

This collection provides hymns which will be...