Adoro o Cristo Vivo

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Adoro o Cristo vivo, presente junto a mim

Author: A. H. Ackley (1933); Translator: João Soares da Fonseca (1990)
Tune: ACKLEY (Ackley)
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

Translator: João Soares da Fonseca

(no biographical information available about João Soares da Fonseca.) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Adoro o Cristo vivo, presente junto a mim
Title:	Adoro o Cristo Vivo
English Title:	He Lives
Translator:	João Soares da Fonseca (1990)
Author:	A. H. Ackley (1933)
Language:	Portuguese
Refrain First Line:	Jesus, Jesus agora vivo está
Publication Date:	1991
Copyright:	Copyright translation 1990 João S. da Fonseca. Used by permission.

1 Thessalonians 1:9
(hymns)

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Tune

ACKLEY (Ackley)

Composed in gospel-song style, ACKLEY is supported by a simple harmonization intended for part singing. Some rubato may be observed in the refrain's final line. Observe two pulses per bar. --Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987

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