Adoriam Ostia Divina’
The Holy Eucharist and the Hymn ‘T’Adoriam Ostia Divina’ Eucharist and the Hymn ‘T’Adoriam Ostia Divina’ The Holy The book The authors Dun Karm Psaila – Malta’s National HECTOR SCERRI, a priest of the Archdiocese of Malta, graduated in theology at the University of The Holy Eucharist Poet – wrote the lyrics for a Eucharistic Malta and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. hymn, ‘T’Adoriam, Ostia Divina’, to He is Head of the Department of Fundamental and be sung during the celebrations which Dogmatic Theology, University of Malta, Director of and the Hymn took place throughout the XXIVth the Foundation for Theological Studies and President of the Theological Commission and the Ecumenical International Eucharistic Congress Commission, Malta. He is the author of a large number ‘T’Adoriam Ostia held in Malta in 1913. of scholarly articles and books, and is a member of The music score for this hymn various international theological societies. Divina’ was composed by Maestro Giuseppe JOE ZAMMIT CIANTAR, a graduate of the University Caruana. The hymn’s melody and of Malta, is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department lyrics were a success and were of Maltese, University of Malta Junior College. A eventually taken home by many of member of the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences of Belgium, the International Society of the foreign dignitaries present for the Dialectologists and Geolinguists, and of the editorial Congress, adopted, translated, and board of Atlas Linguarum Europae of Firenze. He sung in many countries outside Malta. authored several scholarly papers published in local and It seems that the lyrics – expressive foreign journals, and a number of books, including The Placenames of the Coast of Gozo (Malta) (Malta, 2000) of Divine Love in the sacrament of and Il-Priedki bil-Malti ta’ Ignazio Saverio Mifsud the Holy Eucharist – have made it so (Malta, 2008).
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