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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah (hăl'əl`yə) or Alleluia (ăl–) [Heb.,=praise the Lord], joyful expression used in Hebrew worship; cf. Pss. 104–6, 111–13, 115–17, 135, 146–50. Christian liturgies make wide use of it, particularly at Easter time. The Hallelujah Chorus is the brilliant concluding piece of Part II of Handel's Messiah.
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Come for the irrepressible joy that bursts out in alleluias long withheld from a world that could surely use them.
Come to the water: we believers go way back with the wet stuff, and ... by Camille, Alice / U.S. Catholic
May the light which thou dost send Fill our songs with alleluias, alleluias without end
Necessity is laid on me: the birth of mission in Paul by Krentz, Edgar / Currents in Theology and Mission
" We have the Mass: the greetings, and the penitential rite--sins of omission as well as commission included, "all that I have done, and all that I have failed to do"--the readings, the profession of faith, the songs and the homily and the alleluias and amens and the Eucharist.
Not yet in line by MARGET, MADELINE / Commonweal
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