Hymns For The Week And Hymns For The Seasons

Excerpt from Hymns for the Week and Hymns for the Seasons The following Hymns, with the exception of the "Veni, Sancte Spiritus," for Whitsunday; and the "Ave, plena gratia," for- the Feast of the Purification, which are respectively from the Roman and the Paris Missals, and a few additional verses of the Hymn "Jesu dulcis me-moria," are attempts at translation from the Hymns of the Breviary. These, most of them handed down from the earliest ages of the Church, are not, it is well known, among the things which it was desired at the time of the Reformation to reject. The retention of the "Veni Creator" is itself an indication to the contrary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Hymns for the Week and Hymns for the Seasons A few remarks are here prefixed to an index of names and dates, on a subject of great interest, but involved in great obscurity, the age and probable authors of the old Catholic Hymns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.