04 September 2010

Noting the praise theme

in Trinity 14's propers:

Introit:  Blessed are those who dwell in Your house, ever singing Your praises.

Gradual:  It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High.

Verse:  Praise is due to You, O God, in Zion.

Proper Preface:  ...with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and saying.

4 comments:

Matt Carver (Matthaeus Glyptes) said...

Behold, O God our Shield, and look upon the face of Thine anointed : For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand.

How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts : My soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord.

William Weedon said...

I have a friend Brian Feicho whose fieldworker once read the Psalmellus as

How AMIable are Thy taBERNacles, O Lord of hosts.

Matt Carver (Matthaeus Glyptes) said...

haha! I love it.

Becky said...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Confession - Here's what I thought when we recited that this morning: "DUH!"