The Litany of the Saints is a sacred prayer of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Western Rites of the Orthodox Church. It is a prayer of invocation to the Triune God, and prayers for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Angels and all the martyrs and saints upon whom Christianity was founded. It is most prominently sung during the Paschal Vigil at the beginning of Sacraments of Initiation for those to be received that night into the Church, in other celebrations of the Sacrament of Baptism and in the liturgy for Holy Orders.
Category: Music
Gaze upon your Creator, who truly loves you
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, CHRIST IS RISEN!
Crux Fidelis
Crux Fidelis translates ‘Faithful Cross’
Crucify Him by Danielle Rose
Download Danielle Rose’s ‘Crucify Him’ off the Mysteries Album from itunes
Lyrics to Crucify Him:
We wash our hands of the thoughts that slip through our minds.
Like Pontius Pilate, we blame others for the atrocities of our times.
Do we stay silent while the world screams out its lies?
Sell your body, buy your beauty, live at the cost of others’ lives.
Crucify Him – every child torn from the womb;
Crucify Him – every judgment I presume;
Crucify Him – every prisoner on death row;
Crucify Him – will you cast the first stone?
Betrayed by friends, denied by words that spill like wine from our lips.
He drinks the cup for us, His body is our chalice.
Now His back sheds blood under the torment of the whip
We join the chorus of Jerusalem, blind to Christ’s presence
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – every child torn from the womb;
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – every judgment I presume;
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – every prisoner on death row;
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – will you cast the first stone?
Lord, have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord, have mercy on me
Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us
Have mercy Jesus
Crucify Him
Crucify Him – every judgment I presume;
Crucify Him (crucify Him)
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – will you cast the first stone?
Crucify Him – every child torn from the womb;
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – every judgment I presume;
Crucify Him – every prisoner on death row;
Crucify Him (crucify Him) – will you cast the first stone?
Danielle Rose finds Truth in the Eurcharist
Danielle Rose was raised Catholic, but it wasn’t until college when she fell in love with her faith with the Catholic Church. “By the hands of Mary,” she says, “I was taught the truth of Christ and His presence in the Sacraments.”
There came a time in her life when she questioned, “Is it really true, that the Eucharist is really Jesus? If it is not just this nice symbol but if it really is Him, His Body and Blood that we receive at Mass, then I wouldn’t need anything else. I wouldn’t need to eat because if it really is Him, the God of the Universe, then that would be all I need. That’s it.”
She begged God for the gift of faith. But she didn’t really believe. “Because if I really believed then everything would change. If I really believed then everything in my life would change around the Truth,” she realized. She pleaded to know, was Jesus really in the Eucharist? She prayed, “Help me to believe, Lord.” She began to go to daily Mass, to receive His presence in the Eucharist everyday. She found herself drawn there.
Three years past of attending daily Mass culminated in the realization that God had given her the gift of Faith. She knew it was true, it was His body and blood in the Eucharist. But then what scared her more than not knowing the Truth was that she knew she would have to live her life to exemplify the Truth and live that. She felt deep terror because she had no excuse not to do His will and love each person that she met with His love.
She understood, “when we receive His presence there, the Body of Christ, we are members of the body of Christ and that’s a real living thing, we are made for heaven and when we come before the tabernacle, there’s that light there, because we keep vigil with the Lord, like He’s here. It’s such a mystery but He’s actually here. He is so humble that he chooses to be silent. He hides himself there and reveals Himself as much as we let Him.”
Once she graduated from Notre Dame and began a ministry as a music missionary, everywhere she went, she would meet these beautiful people and feel such love for them. She’d be so sad to leave them, not knowing if she’d see them again in this lifetime. She knew “we are made for heaven, we’re destined for that, and God is so gracious to us he doesn’t make us wait until then to be face to face with Him, receive Him, to know Him, and to be with each other. There’s not a separation, when we come to Mass and receive Him there, there’s a living glimpse, a moment that we are already united with Him… He feeds us. He makes his home us.”
Her song, See You In The Eucharist, attributes all that is true within the Eucharist. She explains it so eloquently. “When we come before a tabernacle all the souls of all people in the body of Christ are present there, all the souls who have gone before us that are in heaven, all the saints and angels, all of us now are present in the Body of Christ. Its this incredible mystery. When we go to Mass and receive the Eucharist, it is this incredible mind boggling thing, that not only does Jesus give us himself to us in the Eucharist, but that we receive each other, as members of his body, in the body of Christ, that we’re all there with Him.”
“I want the whole world to know that, it’s Him there in the Eucharist. That’s the most amazing gift that God has given us, that He didn’t just come 2000 years ago and leave and make us wait to be with Him. He lets us be with Him now, everyday as close as Mary, as close as the apostles. I wish every person in the world, every Christian would know this and we could all be united in Him and receive Him. That’s my prayer and that’s what I’ll be praying for my whole life.”
“Spending time with Him in the Eucharist, that’s how everything changed my life. He does speak to each one of us, He really does want to say something to you but we don’t believe that and so we don’t even go listen. If there’s anything I would want to say, ‘It’s to know Him there.’ ”
Find Danielle Rose’s song, See you in the Eucharist, off her album Pursue Me on Itunes
Blessings by Laura Story
Laura Story almost lost her husband to brain cancer in 2006. Her newest song “Blessings” was written as a reminder that God remains faithful even when things don’t turn out the way we expect them to. It was written as a redefining of the word ‘blessing’. Laura shares her heart behind her new song, “Can God be blessing us through not giving us the things we are praying for? There is a blessedness that comes through waiting for the Lord. There is an intimacy in our walk with the Lord that comes through working through that valley. There is a reliance on His word that we only know when everything fades away. So in that sense I truly feel blessed.”
Blessings by Laura Story
from the album Blessings
Lyrics:
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if the thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we’d have faith to believe
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if the thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if the thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise
Lil’ Mike raps about God
Lil’ Mike reaches out to this generation in a way that is culturally relevant, while not compromising the truth. Enjoy his new hit, ‘Can’t back down’ featuring Anna. New album comes out in May 2011.
Gregorian Chant Benedictinos
During Lent, many turn to Gregorian Chants for their beauty and peacefulness.
See this song translated here.
Gregorian Chant: Salve Regina
the track is listed as:
“anonymous/gregorian: Salve Regina”, choir concerto in the Dome of Aachen,
recorded 1968.
Choir of the cathedral of Einsiedeln
Choral Master: Pater Roman Bannwart
Organ: Pater Cornelius Winiger
Cond.: Pater Daniel Meier
I think the “anonymous” expresses that the piece comes out of the monastic tradition.
Lights My Way welcomes 1st Day of spring 2011 with new hit, Backyard, by Felicita
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