Listen to this beautiful ancient hymn of the Church (English and Latin) and learn how you might incorporate it into your own spirituality and prayer life.
Beautiful! We pray the Divine Office at church and at home. I prefer it in Latin, but it is beautiful in English as well. Thank you for sharing this. One thing I did not know is that it is thought to have been authored by St. Ambrose. St. Ambrose is dear to me, for he converted my love, my sweet St. Augustine of Hippo.
I may include the Latin version of the lyrics since you're the second person referencing the Latin character of the hymn. I just wish Substack offered a more elegant mechanism for including content. Like a dropdown or an accordion so people can click between both versions. The post is very lengthy so I removed the Latin lyrics to shorten it up.
In the penal times in England, the staff and seminarians of the English College in Rome used to sing the Te Deum whenever they got word of another priest martyred for their faith. I often think of that when praying it.
Wow, what a cool bit of history there! I never knew that. Thanks for sharing it. It's so important that we each share the things we have learned along the way in our personal Catholic adventures. Even seemingly insignificant things are valuable and not insignificant at all.
Beautiful! We pray the Divine Office at church and at home. I prefer it in Latin, but it is beautiful in English as well. Thank you for sharing this. One thing I did not know is that it is thought to have been authored by St. Ambrose. St. Ambrose is dear to me, for he converted my love, my sweet St. Augustine of Hippo.
I may include the Latin version of the lyrics since you're the second person referencing the Latin character of the hymn. I just wish Substack offered a more elegant mechanism for including content. Like a dropdown or an accordion so people can click between both versions. The post is very lengthy so I removed the Latin lyrics to shorten it up.
In the penal times in England, the staff and seminarians of the English College in Rome used to sing the Te Deum whenever they got word of another priest martyred for their faith. I often think of that when praying it.
Yes. Our priest has spoken to us of this.
Wow, what a cool bit of history there! I never knew that. Thanks for sharing it. It's so important that we each share the things we have learned along the way in our personal Catholic adventures. Even seemingly insignificant things are valuable and not insignificant at all.