Tag: Choir

• The night is dark, and I am far from home; Lead thou me on! Legacy of Saint John Henry Newman

  1. Lead, kindly Light: historical context[1] Lead, Kindly Light is a hymn with words written in 1833 by Saint John Henry Newman as a poem titled “the Pillar and the Cloud”. A poem biblically based on Exod 13: 21-22. John Henry Newman was 33 years old when he found himself on a boat from the…

  Valentine Umoh

  October 29, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Educational, Instructional, Basic Rules for Living, Exhortation, Motivational, Faith, Missiology, Mission, Theology, Saints

  Choir, Faith, Formation, Hope, Motivation, Music, Students, Truth

• The Function of Music in Sacred Worship: The Role of Choristers

    By Valentine Umoh Introduction[1] The experience of encounter with the holy, awe-provoking yet fascinatingly attractive, is known from the history of religions.[2] This experience invites engagement with a transcendent “Holy mystery” or “ground of being” who at once is utterly beyond all created personal beings and is very near (immanent) to them. In both…

  Valentine Umoh

  October 26, 2019

  Catholic Theology, Faith, Missiology, Mission, Theology, Worship, Youths & Formation

  Catholic Theology, Choir, Faith, Music, Sacram musicam, Sacred Liturgy, Students, Truth, Youths