One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

Miriam Lichtheim describes the hymn as " a beautiful statement of the doctrine of the One God.

Following the regulative principle of worship, many Reformed churches adopted the doctrine of exclusive psalmody: every hymn sung in worship must be an actual translation of a Psalm or some other Biblical passage.

The hymn collections of early practitioners have since become the sacred works of the doctrine.

In the tune to which this hymn is most often sung, `` Boylston '', the syllables have and fy, ending their lines, have twice the time any other syllables have.

'' A hymn often to be heard in Catholic churches is `` Faith Of Our Fathers '', which glories in England's ancient faith that endured persecution, and which proclaims: `` Faith of our Fathers: Mary's prayers Shall win our country back to thee ''.

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn which portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood.

Sam Fransisku Xaviera is a Konkani hymn, which is sung as the recessional hymn at most of the novenas held at Bom Jesus Basilica, Velha Goa, the place where the relics of St. Francis Xavier are kept.

The word hymn derives from Greek ( hymnos ), which means " a song of praise.

The music to which a hymn may be sung is a hymn tune.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

During the 19th century the gospel-song genre spread rapidly in Protestantism and, to a lesser but still definite extent, in Roman Catholicism ; the gospel-song genre is unknown in the worship per se by Eastern Orthodox churches, which rely exclusively on traditional chants ( a type of hymn ).

Thanks to Thomas Symmes a new idea of how to sing hymns spread throughout the churches in which anyone would sing a hymn any way they felt led to ; this was opposed by the views of Symmes colleagues who felt it was " like Five Hundred different Tunes roared out at the same time.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

In the Homeric hymn the ritual is connected with the myth of the agricultural god Triptolemos The high point of the celebration was " an ear of corn cut in silence ", which represented the force of the new life.

In formal terms it is a hymn invoking Zeus and the Muses: parallel passages between it and the much shorter Homeric Hymn to the Muses make it clear that the Theogony developed out of a tradition of hymnic preludes with which an ancient Greek rhapsode would begin his performance at poetic competitions.

John XXII has traditionally been credited with having composed the prayer " Anima Christi, sanctifica me ...", which has come down to us in English as " Soul of Christ, sanctify me ..." and as the hymn, " Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast ".

In Prudentius ( 4th century ) we find a hymn entitled " Ad incensum lucernæ " which, according to some critics, would appear to have been composed for the hour of the Lucernarium ( Arevalo, " Prudenti carmina ", I, 124, ed.

* The hymn, which varies according to season and feast, is sung, followed by its versicle and response.

They have this particular characteristic — they are all devoted to the praise of one of the days of the Creation, according to the day of the week, thus: the first, " Lucis Creator optime ", on Sunday, to the creation of light ; the second, on Monday, to the separation of the earth and the waters ; the third, on Tuesday, to the creation of the plants ; the fourth, on Wednesday, to the creation of the sun and moon ; the fifth, on Thursday, to the creation of the fish ; the sixth, on Friday, to the creation of the beasts of the earth ; Saturday is an exception, the hymn on that day being in honour of the Blessed Trinity, because of the Office of Sunday then commencing.

Embedded in the Acts of Thomas at different places according to differing manuscript traditions is a Syriac hymn, The Hymn of the Pearl, ( or Hymn of the Soul ), a poem that gained a great deal of popularity in mainstream Christian circles.

At the birth of Apollo on Delos according to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea and Themis and the sea-goddess " loud-moaning " Amphitrite.

Taken together, the evidence of the Calendar of Filocalus and Julian's hymn to Helios clearly shows, according to Hijmans and others, that the ludi of October 19 – 22 were the Solar Games instituted by Aurelian.

In the parts of the service where the ḥazzán would traditionally have a more solistic rôle, the basic melodies are embellished according to the general principles of Baroque performance practice: for example, after a prayer or hymn sung by the congregation, the ḥazzán often repeats the last line in a highly elaborated form.

The occasion of the both hymns was the Pythian Festival, held only once every ten years, and according to the former assumption of dating the earlier hymn was probably written for the boys ' choir at the Pythian Games in 138 BCE.

These include, inter alia, settings of the four Marian antiphons from the Roman Rite, four Marian hymns set a3, a version of the Litany, the gem-like setting of the Eucharistic hymn Ave verum Corpus, and the Turbarum voces from the St John Passion, as well as a series of miscellaneous items.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Veni Sancte Spiritus is the sequence hymn for the Day of Pentecost.

In the Roman rite, the hymn is sung in the Divine Office on June 24, the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist.

The hymn is best known from its use as a sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem mass.

It was removed from the ordinary form of the Roman Rite mass in the liturgical reform of 1969 – 1970, but was retained as a hymn of the Divine Office.

The hymn is a more recent introduction in the Roman Vespers ; the finale ( litanies, Pater, versicles, prayers ) seems all to have existed from this epoch as in the Benedictine cursus.

* Frederick William Faber, theologian, hymn writer, Oratorian and Roman Catholic priest

The Carmen Saeculare ( Latin for " Secular Hymn "-" Song of the Ages ") is a hymn in Sapphic meter written by the Roman poet Horace.

been reprinted in several Roman Catholic hymn books set to the tune ' Hyfrydol.

The Latin text of the hymn as authorized for use in the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Rite ( ordinary form ) is the following:

Similarly the Western Roman Catholic Church greets what it sees as really in the Eucharist with the words of a Latin hymn of which a literal translation is: " Hail, true body, born of Mary Virgin, and which truly suffered and was immolated on the cross for mankind!

In the breviary of 1974 Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours, Compline is divided as follows: introduction, an optional examination of conscience or penitential rite, a hymn, psalmody with accompanying antiphons, scriptural reading, the responsory, the Canticle of Simeon, concluding prayer, and benediction.

* Gloria in Excelsis Deo, the main doxology or hymn of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Mass, and also known as the Great Doxology in the Eastern Orthodox Church

By contrast, in the Roman Rite this hymn is not included in the Liturgy of the Hours, but is sung or recited in the Mass, after the Kyrie, on Sundays outside of Lent and Advent and on solemnities and feasts.

* List of Roman Catholic Church musicians – for hymn writers and religious music

In the 6th century St. Benedict gives a detailed description of them in his Rule: the Psalms ( almost identical with those of the Roman Liturgy ), the canticle, the last three Psalms, the capitulum, hymn, versicle, the canticle Benedictus, and the concluding part.

The hymn is also popular in the Roman Catholic Latin rite as an alternative to the spoken communion antiphon.

The " Salve Regina ", also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.

The English-language Roman Catholic hymnal also uses the tune for the Charles Stanford hymns " Christ Be Beside Me " and " This Day God Gives Me ", both of which were adapted from the traditional Irish hymn St. Patrick's Breastplate.

The Exsultet ( spelled in pre-1920 editions of the Roman Missal as Exultet ) or Easter Proclamation, in Latin Praeconium Paschale, is the hymn of praise sung, ideally by the deacon, before the paschal candle during the Easter Vigil in the Roman Rite of Mass.

O Sanctissima is a Roman Catholic hymn in Latin to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

... and, following the form of classical hymn, claims her heritage with the Roman pantheon: