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Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Topic Started: Mar 16 2009, 10:31 PM (460 Views)
HelenaZF Mar 16 2009, 10:31 PM Post #1
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"more is more"

 This is a hymn usually associated with Advent and Christmas season, but it carries rich meaning in Lent as well. Sometimes the use of a seeming "out of season" hymn can jar our thinking and bring us to deeper appreciation of the the musical intent.

The video is a 7 minute meditation set to an exquisite arrangement of this haunting melody using scenes from movies and bits of artwork and scripture. The video production is not high quality, but I think you can appreciate the intent of the editing.



To listen to this hymn melody: http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh626.sht

1.Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with fear and trembling stand;
ponder nothing earthly-minded,
for with blessing in his hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
our full homage to demand.

2.King of kings, yet born of Mary,
as of old on earth he stood,
Lord of lords, in human vesture,
in the body and the blood;
he will give to all the faithful
his own self for heavenly food.

3.Rank on rank the host of heaven
spreads its vanguard on the way,
as the Light of light descendeth
from the realms of endless day,
that the powers of hell may vanish
as the darkness clears away.

4.At his feet the six-winged seraph,
cherubim, with sleepless eye,
veil their faces to the presence,
as with ceaseless voice they cry:
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Lord Most High!
Edited by HelenaZF, Aug 16 2010, 07:05 PM.
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