The first of three 2025 Hymn Festivals offered by area congregations to celebrate the “Music of the Church” will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at Christ the Lord Lutheran, 12N462 Tina Trail ...

To demonstrate that connection, several of the new hymns aren ... the hymnal is that the old hymnal expresses only “limited cultural representation of the global church,” I expect those ...

eventually becoming an ordained minister in the Church of England and taking a church in Olney, England. It was there that he ...

Niño as they recited the holy rosary and sang religious hymns amplified by speakers and ... Niño arrived at the centuries-old church around 5:30 a.m. The church’s outdoor Pilgrim Center ...

Home Moravian Church serves coffee and a sweet bun, while a chorus sings hymns. After everyone has been ... to come to experience this centuries-old tradition. The Moravian Lovefeast is a modern ...

Singing hymns from Saint Arunagirinathar ... at the homes of the parish members. The 125-year-old shrine was bifurcated from St. Andrews Church at Vepery and became a parish in 1900.

Plains, Georgia, is preparing to bid farewell to a beloved resident, Jimmy Carter. His longtime church, Maranatha Baptist, is at the center of these preparations. The town ...

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in ...

After Compline, the short and popular monastic office at the end of the day, those in the church go to the nearest corner of the Romanesque cloister to sing a hymn before that statue of the Virgin ...

When Peter and Jacqueline Halpin evacuated the home they lived in for 36 years, they had no idea they would never see it ...

From inside the walls of Rome’s largest prison, Christmas hymns rang out as inmates ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church. The 88-year-old Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St ...