'The tune usually used appeared with the song with Franz's translation, but the original chant upon which it is based also seems to date back to the fourth century.' While in essence only One, Undivided God we claim Thee ДЄnd adoring bend the knee, While we own the mystery.

Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit, Three we name Thee.

When Thy voice shall shake the earth, And the startled dead come forth. We believe that Thou shalt come In the dreaded doomsday morning

From Thy high celestial home, Judge of all, again returning,.

Thou art King of glory, Christ: Son of God, yet born of Mary ДЇor us sinners sacrificed, And to death a tributary:ДЇirst to break the bars of death, Thou has opened Heaven to faith.

Prophets swell the loud refrain, And the white robed martyrs follow ДЄnd from morn to set of sun, Through the Church the song goes on.

Lo! the apostolic train Join the sacred Name to hallow.

Hark! the loud celestial hymn Angel choirs above are raising,Д¬herubim and seraphim, In unceasing chorus praising ДЇill the heavens with sweet accord: Holy, holy, holy, Lord.

Infinite Thy vast domain, Everlasting is Thy reign.

Holy God, we praise Thy Name Lord of all, we bow before Thee!ДЄll on earth Thy scepter claim, All in Heaven above adore Thee.

A German version was made around 1771 by Ignaz Franz, and from that, it was translated into English around 1853 by Clarence Augustus Walworth as, ' Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.'Дad went to the bookshelf, picked up one of the hymnbooks there, turned to a page, and said, 'Look at these words.' The hymn is believed to have been written around 380. He was a missionary bishop to Dacia or modern Serbia. Legend attributes it to Ambrose of Milan but modern scholarship favors Niceta of Remesiana who lived from around 335 to 414. One of the earliest known hymns in the Latin language is the 'Te Deum' which dates to the fourth century. 'Although Greek was the universal language in the majority of the first-century world, including the church, Latin was the primary language of Italy and especially the Western churches, so several early hymns from Italy during the years 100 to 500 were written in Latin. 'But,' Andrew piped in, 'Were there any hymns written in Latin?' And when the Norman French conquered England in 1066, they brought a lot of French words with Latin roots into the English language, so that is why it is still important for us to study Latin today.' Latin became the basis for many other modern languages, such as French, Spanish, and Italian.

The work of the Roman Empire also helped in the rapid spread of the gospel by providing a fairly uniform system of law that brought about a 200-year time of peace and also establishing a system of transportation to move its armies from place to place that made travel much easier. Caesar and his contemporaries, Pompey, Marc Antony, and others extended the rule of Rome from Italy to include most of the former empire of Alexander the Great. The government of the Roman Empire replaced the Roman Republic and actually had its beginnings in the time of Julius Caesar, who lived from around 102 to 44 B.C. While the first-century world was characterized by Greek culture, it was ruled by Rome. 500, Latin, which had been the official language of the old Roman Empire, replaced Greek as the universal language, especially for use in the church.

Why then do we study Latin, and were there any hymns written in Latin?'Дad replied, 'Around A.D. 'Last week, you said that the earliest hymns that we have any historical record of were written in Greek because that was the universal language of the civilized world in the first century and for about three more centuries after that.

He asked his father a couple of questions. Seth was working on translating some Latin words.

We also try to have at least one new motet per month - often a polyphonic setting of one of the Propers specific to the Sunday.Studies in Hymns The Young Person's Guide to the Hymnbook Latin Hymns of the Medieval ChurchДЄbout a week later, Andrew and Seth's mom had to go out and run some errands, so Dad was home with them while they did their studies. For Candlemas, we always sing Eccard's 'When to the Temple Mary went' and, on occasions, FaurГ©'s 'Cantique de Jean Racine'. We maintain rigidly our principle of only singing motets in Latin - with two notable exceptions.

Finita iam sunt proelia latin