I thought I'd start out my blogspot with a true confession. I am a closet hymn lover. It began when I was a teenager, and has persisted through my whole adult life, through my various stages as a United Church person, then as a Charismatic Christian, and on into my Catholic life.
You see, I credit hymns with a lot of my personal formation. All kinds of ideas have been infused into me via hymns - granted the ideas came from Scripture and tradition, and people may have learned these things from books or elsewhere. Let me give you an example: when I am weak I am strong. I learned this first from "Jesus loves me", then from "Lord of all Power".
How many of you know that the "Divine Pelican" is a title of Jesus? If you don't that would be because we don't sing "Adoro te Devote" anymore. The original, I mean. St. Thomas Aquinas included a verse about the Divine Pelican. There is a legend that if a pelican is unable to find food for her young, she will peck her own breast and pour out her own blood to feed them, causing her own death. I don't know if pelicans really do this, but this is where the title for Jesus came from.
I promise not to go on too often about this, but I just had to tell everyone right off the bat. Anyone have any comments?
3 comments:
I like them too. The words were so eloquent,and had profound meaning that made a lot of them stand the test of time "In this Thy bitter passion, dear Savior think of me". "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me." He said wretch,he meant wretch.He had been a slave trader,the man that wrote Amazing Grace.
I know that you're a hymn lover that's why you married Peter.
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