DEUS TUORUM MILITUM
DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (God of Your Soldiers) takes its name from a Latin Office hymn for martyrs and confessors, and the tune is drawn from the 'Antiphoner' published at Grenoble, France in 1753. This collection was part of the broader movement of Diocesan or Neogallican plainchant reform that flourished in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as various French dioceses produced their own distinctive liturgical books rather than adhering strictly to Roman usage. The Grenoble Ant
Stanza Arc
The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Christ's forty-day fast as pattern for believer's Lenten struggle against sin, culminating in Easter resurrection hope
Associated Hymn Texts (16)
- Christ is the World's Light
- O Love, How Deep
- The Royal Banners Forward Go
- Twas on That Dark That Doleful Night
- All Ye Who on This Earth do Dwell
- Come Now Almighty King
- Forth in the Peace of Christ We Go
- In His Temple Now Behold Him
- Jesus My Great High Priest
- Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates
- Lift Up Your Heads, You Mighty Gates
- O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart's Desire
- Oh Wondrous Type Oh Vision Fair
- Rise O Light of Gentile Nations
- Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
- With High Delight Let Us Unite