Te Deum Laudamus: Praising God for Our Year
On the last day of the year, in many religious houses, the community gathers for a solemn chanting of the famous sixth-century hymn Te Deum Laudamus (“We Praise Thee, God”). This hymn is recited in the Sunday and Feast Day Office of the Breviary after the Morning Readings. The hymn is in the common form […]
New Year’s Day always struck me as something of an odd holiday. Why do we humans find it necessary to set aside a day to mark yet another full trip around the sun? Different cultures have celebrated the new year at different times: the Jewish people celebrate the new year in their liturgy on Rosh […]
This New Year can be the best of years and this all depends on us and God’s amazing grace! Hope, trust, joy, confidence, peace and happiness should be sentiments that simply overflow in the heart of a true follower of Jesus. Jesus’ Birthday must be a source of the greatest joy and happiness. The reason […]
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