When Hector Berlioz put music to the Latin prayer Te Deum, he did so with a specific church and its organ in mind — the Église St. Eustache in France — and he specified very large performing forces.

One of the best things about Trinity Sunday is that we get to sing the hymn Grosser Gott, or "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name," which is our English version of the Te Deum. You would think you would be ...

We all have our favorite prayers, novenas, devotions and aspirations. One of mine is a prayer that seems to have fallen out of popular use lately: the ancient “Te Deum”, commonly attributed to St.