Voices Found

  For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ Galations 5:14  Voices Found #143, verse 1 Love astounding, love confounding  limits fearful minds impose. Love renewing, love pursuing  every heart until it knows love's transforming, healing goodness,  love's abiding, gentle grace, love's endurance, love's assurance,  love's consoling, strong embrace. Words: Jeannette M. Lindholm Music:  Holy Manna,  from  The Southern Harmony, 1835;  acc. Margaret M. Mealy Author Jeannette (Jan) M. Lindholm is a professor of English.  While studying at the University of Minnesota, she specialized in composition and rhetoric and received her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature in 1992.  She also holds degrees from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN (B.A. in English and German, 1983), Indiana University (M.A. in English Language and Literature, 1986), and Boston University School of Theolog...

                                                           Antiphon 15, de Spiritu  Sancto  Hildegard, Abbess of  Rudesheim   Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)  was the first woman to  compose  liturgical song  for the Western Church.  Her chants are  preserved  in two codices or manuscripts .   Above you see a facsimile edition of  the  Dendermonde Codex  that Hildegard produced in her Rudesheim Abbey.     She sent it to an Abbey in Belgium where it survived several  transfers and wars.  It   is now preserved in the Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul in Dendermonde, Belgium. Above you can see the original notation for Hildegard's antiphon 15,   De Spiritu Sancto. Antiphon 15 De Spiritu Sancto Spiritus Sanctus vivificans v...