Tag: Erich Przywara

In 1915 the Jesuit priest and composer Josef Kreitmaier published a collection of hymns entitled Unsere Kirche. The music was by Kreitmaier himself, but the texts were by a young Jesuit seminarian, later to become one of the most influential of Catholic philosophers and theologians in the 20^th century: Erich Przywara (1889-1972). One of the hymns in the collection was a hymn to Christ the King, entitled “Liebe bis ans Ende,” (love unto the end) but usually known by its first verse, “O Du mein Heiland hoch und hehr” (O Thou my Saviour glorious). This hymn received an unexpected boost in popularity ten years later, when Pope Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King. Soon it was sung in Churches throughout the German speaking world on the Feast Day. Continue reading “A Hymn to Christ the King by Erich Przywara”