"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" | by Gustav Holst | Chancel Choir

~ History of Hymns: “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” ~ Let all mortal flesh keep silence and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand. “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is one of the earliest Christian hymns still in common usage. Its roots date to the fourth century and is based on the Greek text “Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn” in the Liturgy of St. James. According to hymnologis