With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley Safeguarding_ Its often-bewildering text is easily

Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less than scholarly interpretation

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Published: Dec 2005

Two nights before her First Communion she suddenly questioned whether she should receive the Eucharist

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With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley Safeguarding_ Its often-bewildering text is easilyNowadays the inclusion of hymns, chants and sequences in Eucharistic worship is a well established and much loved feature of liturgical celebration that we tend to take for granted. How this came about is the subject of this present fascinating study in which John Blakesley guides us through the growth and development of chant, office hymns, sequences and tropes and their increased use in the Church of the Middle Ages. St Ambrose is credited with