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  • But the setting par excellence for the Alleluia is the liturgy.

    Septuagesima John 2009

  • But the setting par excellence for the Alleluia is the liturgy.

    From the Mail John 2009

  • We children of a generation weak in faith do not notice it, but the faithful of the Middle Ages felt it keenly: the Alleluia is discontinued and will not be heard again until Holy Saturday.

    From the Mail John 2009

  • We children of a generation weak in faith do not notice it, but the faithful of the Middle Ages felt it keenly: the Alleluia is discontinued and will not be heard again until Holy Saturday.

    Septuagesima John 2009

  • Use an Alleluia from the Parish Book of Chant and stop with these four-square numbers that have been beat to death

    Getting from Here to There 2009

  • On the day when, according to the ritual, the Alleluia was omitted from the liturgy, a top on which the word Alleluia was written was whipped out of church, to the singing of psalms, by the choirboys, who wished it bon voyage till Easter.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Pneuma enim seu jubilus qui fit in fine exprimit gaudium et amorem credentium ", that is," the Alleluia is short in word and long in neum, because that joy is too great to be expressed in words.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The use of the word Alleluia in the Liturgy is also

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • A large stoneware Adam and Eve and an abstract, faintly mournful steel, wood and stoneware "Alleluia" -- a prefiguration of the fall?

    Anthony Caro's Chapel of Light 2008

  • The Blessed Word also cheers us with pictures of a dawning day to which we are approaching, when a voice shall be heard under the whole heavens, saying, "Alleluia" -- "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."

    American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

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