The prompt today being, “Deborah” gave me some trouble to be honest. I did a little research, did a little digging, did a lot of thinking and what kept coming back to me was that tree. Deborah’s tree. It was a place so well associated with her that it took her name, “She held courtĀ under the Palm of Deborah between RamahĀ and BethelĀ in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went upā¦
On the shelves in the first house we owned, Dave and I kept a collection of things; souvenirs of our travel, gifts from friends and family, odd knick-knacks we’d found or acquired in one way or another. We kept the collection on the blonde wood shelves in the diningroom of our craftsman bungalow on the north side of Chicago. Before that they’d lived on the top of the crates in our loftā¦
After the opening proclamation, the Great Litany is chanted. This litany begins every liturgical service of the Orthodox Church, as well as virtually all sacraments and special services. It is the all-embracing prayer of the Church for everyone and everything. It consists of petitions to which the people respond: Lord have mercy. -Orthodox Church in America At Liturgy we pray for the world, every week, without fail. We pray for the worldā¦
Messiah is not a typical Handel oratorio; there are no named characters, as are usually found in Handelās setting of the Old Testament stories, possibly to avoid charges of blasphemy. It is a meditation rather than a drama of personalities, lyrical in method; the narration of the story is carried on by implication, and there is no dialogue. ā Christopher Hogwood Oratorio (n.) “long musical composition, usually with a text based onā¦
Who is the King of Glory How shall we call Him? He is Emmanuel the promised of ages. When I hear the word, “Glory” this old song is what comes to mind first and it’s appropriate, this being the Nativity Fast and all. When I was a kid, we sangĀ “The King of Glory Comes”Ā during Advent for the most part. It felt ancient, almost tribal and it stuck to me somehow. Because theā¦