Showing posts with label hymn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hymn. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Video: Edward Kennedy Funeral Mass - Ave Maria performed by Susan Graham and James David Christie


Susan Graham and James David Christie give a moving rendition of the hymn "Ave Maria" by Schubert at the funeral mass for Sen. Edward Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica church in Boston. It reminds me very much of Ave Maria as sung by Renee Fleming and Sissel.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Video of Hymn St. Patrick's Breastplate, sung by Angelina (EWTN)



This hymn is taken from two CDs Songs of the Faithful and Wake Up Call. Angelina travelled to the Hill of Slane in County Meath (Ireland) to film this beautiful song. She also went over to the very famous Grafton Street in Dublin. This video was shot in one day and the director was Manuel DeTeffe of Rome. Arrangement was by Shaun Davey, mechanical and synch license were obtained through HFA. Saint Patrick's Breastplate is an old Irish Christian hymn. It is generally assumed that Saint Patrick wrote the Old Irish lyrics during his Irish ministry in the 5th century. However there is a school of thought that it may have written in the 8th century.It is part of the Liber Hymnorum (Book of Hymns)- a collection of hymns found in two manuscripts kept in Dublin.
Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander translated the hymn from old Irish into English.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Bring Flowers of the Rarest (Queen of the May) Catholic Hymn sung by Maureen Hegarty


This is the month of May, the month of Our Lady. 'Bring Flowers of the Rarest' is often sung in churches during May Devotions. "Bring Flowers Of The Fairest" was composed by Mary E. Walsh, who was a pupil of the Sisters of Notre Dame. Under the title "Crowning Hymn" it was published in Wreath of Mary, 1871 and later in St. Basil's Hymnal, 1889.

Frank Patterson sings Bring Flowers Of The Rarest - Queen of the May HERE

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Barclay James Harvest:Hymn (Video and Lyrics)



This song emphasizes the dangers of drug abuse. It was dedicated to musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Paul Kossoff and Janis Joplin. It contrasts the temporary thrill of illegal drug use with the spiritual "high" of Christianity. Religious imagery permeates this classic.



Valley's deep and the mountain's so high

If you want to see God you've got to move on the other side

You stand up there with your head in the clouds

Don't try to fly you know you might not come down

Don't try to fly, dear God, you might not come down

Jesus came down from Heaven to earth

The people said it was a virgin birth

Jesus came down from Heaven to earth

The people said it was a virgin birth



He told great stories of the Lord

And said he was the saviour of us all

He told great stories of the Lord

And said he was the saviour of us all



For this they/we killed him, nailed him up high

He rose again as if to ask us why

Then he ascended into the sky

As if to say in God alone you soar

As if to say in God alone we fly.



Valley's deep and the mountain's so high

If you want to see God you've got to move on the other side

You stand up there with your head in the clouds

Don't try to fly you know you might not come down

Don't try to fly, dear God, you might not come down