Of course, anyone who writes canticles must know the life of the saint to perfection, to the least trivial detail.
To be sure, one must make them harmonize with the other canticles and know where to begin and what to write about.
It was to confute this school that St. Bernard had taught in his sermons on the Canticles that union with God is not by confusion of natures, but conformity of will.
They say their prayers, meditate for half an hour, and then hear mass, {313} during which they sing canticles in their savage fashion.
He had composed a number of hymns and canticles in her honor, and he never fell asleep without pressing his lips to the image of the Carmen, which he wore on his neck.
Instead of grumbling and complaining, let your voices be sweet and tender in memory of the canticles with which His mother lulled Him to sleep.
Sacred canticles have taken the place of the old pagan chants and immoral dances are unknown.
Instead of the holy canticles which resounded beneath these consecrated vaults till now, I hear lascivious and blasphemous songs.
The vernacular version of Canticles was to be suppressed, if the inquisitor-general and Suprema saw fit.
And then what canticles of joy, what shouts of gratitude and love arose at each fresh miracle!
It was in the Polish tongue, with the exception of the vesper-hymns and some canticles of the church in Latin.
The Psalms and Canticles are generally sung to a chant.
A single chant is an air consisting of two phrases, corresponding to the two parts into which every verse of the Psalms and Canticles is divided in our Prayer Book by a colon.
Sometimes the Canticles are sung to what is called a Service, which is a musical arrangement similar to the Anthem.
It was used to flavour wine and meats, and a wine was made from its juice: "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my Pomegranate" (Canticles viii.
Some authorities mention the Palm as one of the four trees which furnished the wood of which the Redeemer's Cross was composed; this notion is derived from Canticles vii.
In mediaeval days, the monks and nuns believed that the Convallaria was the Lily of the Valley mentioned in the Canticles (ii.
The Cedar is made the emblem of the righteous in the 92nd Psalm, and is likened to the countenance of the Son of God in the inspired Canticles of Solomon.
Julia hears the angelic canticles which accompany the apparition and is converted to the true faith, persisting in it to martyrdom, to which she is condemned by her husband.
Pious canticles on the one hand, harsh songs on the other, precede the battle, the progress of which is related by a solo voice.
But as such merely he would hardly have been, in the Preface to his Paraphrases of the Canticles (v.
Chronicles and Nehemiah (three times), and inCanticles (three times).
I In the Targum, Caleb's kindred the Kenites are designated as Salmaeans; the name also occurs in Canticles (i.
As well in the fort, as on the road, we never missed performing in common, our evening and morning devotions, and singing canticles in honor of the Almighty.
This night, between the 25th and 26th, the prayers and canticles have not ceased.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 6 The spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 8 The love of the church to Christ: his love to her.
Canticle ofCanticles Chapter 7 A further description of the graces of the church the spouse of Christ.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 1 The spouse aspires to an union with Christ, their mutual love for one another.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 4 Christ sets forth the graces of his spouse: and declares his love for her.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 2 Christ caresses his spouse: he invites her to him.
Canticle of Canticles Chapter 5 Christ calls his spouse: she languishes with love: and describes him by his graces.
The Jewish rabbis had a saying that no one should read the Canticles before he was thirty years of age.
Under pretence of managing an income for the singers, they suppress half the stanzas of canticles and hymns, and substitute, to vary the pleasure, the tiresome divagations of an organ.
The liturgical year was, like it, studded with crystals and jewels by its admirable canticles and its fervent hymns set in the very gold of Benedictions and Vespers.
If a man, says the Canticle of Canticles give all his riches for love he will think that he has done nothing.
This is why the spouse in the Canticles is represented with one eye closed, and all the power of vision concentrated in the other, thus enabling her to gaze more intently into the very depths of the heart of her Beloved, piercing it with love.
In the same sense as that in which the Holy Ghost in the Canticle of Canticles tells us that Love is as strong as death and fierce as hell.
And the Israelites had good reason to excuse themselves to the Babylonians, who urged them to sing the sacred Canticles of Sion: How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
Among other matters, she explained the Psalms and the Canticle of Canticles in a style at once so sublime and so clear, that both beginners and proficients derived profit from her words.
Often had she sighed for this hour, and with the Spouse in the Canticles besought the Lord to show her His face, and to let her hear His voice-- that face so comely, and that voice so sweet.
Israel ever questioned that the Canticles render the hands unclean, as the whole world is not equal to the day on which the Canticles were given to Israel; for all the Scriptures are holy, but the Canticles are Holy of Holies.
Judah says, “Canticles render the hands unclean, but Ecclesiastes is in dispute.
The Canticles and Ecclesiastes render the hands unclean.
Eleazar, the son of Azariah, into the president’s seat, that Canticles and Ecclesiastes render the hands unclean.
José says, “Ecclesiastes does not render the hands unclean, but the Canticles are in dispute.
In any natural classification of the books of the Old Testament, those of Ecclesiastes and Canticles will fall into the division which contains the books of Job, Psalms, and Proverbs.
Whence the bridegroom in the Canticles saith to the bride, 'Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury.
The bride in the Canticles saith, 'The ascent unto it is purple, the midst thereof being paved with love.
The bride in the Canticles of Love calleth it a purple ascent.
Acting on the instruction of his spiritual director, the Reverend Father Douillard, the worthy Admiral had dedicated his fleet to St. Orberosia and directed canticles in honour of the Alcan Virgin to be composed by Christian bards.
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