Prayers during the Canon of the Mass during the Mass of the Faithful
Music is found in every culture around the world and has existed for at least 55,000 years.
Although musical compositions may have existed this far back in human history, the earliest written songs only date back to over 3,000 years ago.
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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is another early Christian Greek hymn that is still used today.
The hymn was originally written for the Offertory of the Divine Liturgy of St. James, which is the oldest complete form of the Divine Liturgy still in existence.
It probably antedates the rest of the liturgy and goes back at least to AD 275, with local churches adopting arrangements in Syriac.
The modern arrangement of the hymn was created by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
He used a translation of the original Greek words by Gerard Moultrie and paired them with the French medieval folk melody, “Picardy”.
This version of the hymn eventually became popular among other Christian congregations around the world.
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