Each longer stanza ends with the refrain: "Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded." The first part of the hymn is about the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary by the Angel. It describes Mary’s surprise at the news, ...

In English this carol is usually known as “Angels We Have Heard on High ... we view him,” comes from another of Montgomery’s hymn texts, “The Babe of Bethlehem,” penned in 1825.

The 1850 hymn is still popular in church services across the country, beginning with the soaring lines "It came upon the midnight clear, / That glorious song of old, / From angels bending near the ...

One hundred years earlier, Charles Wesley had suggested that his own hymn text “Hark, how all the welkin [heaven] rings” should be sung to a slow and solemn melody. It was William Cummings who ...

Tens of thousands responded online as children sang “Gethsemane,” a new hymn of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

This hymn was written in 1861 for the dedication of a new organ in a rural church in Lancashire by Reverend Francis Pott. The tune, “Angel Voices” was written at the same time for the ...

During Matins, after the monk had chanted the customary hymn, "More honorable than the Cherubim...," composed by Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, the Angel chanted the same hymn, but with the following ...

The Fatima Rosary Rally at Guardian Angel Church, Oran, MO, gathered 34 attendees to pray for key causes including ending ...

The editors of a tiny 165-year-old pamphlet, believed to be the world’s only surviving copy of a Chartist hymn book, have been identified. Dr Mike Sanders, from The University of Manchester, says the ...

Some eight centuries after St. Francis of Assisi composed "Creatures of the Canticle," the manuscript is making its first ...

The fall season wrapped up with an excellent program featuring works by Balanchine and Ratmansky, as well as a celebration of ...