HymnFest 4：Canticle of Creatures 800 造物讚800

2025 Hong Kong Hymnos Festival

HymnFest 4：Canticle of Creatures 800

Date & Time: Sun 9 Nov 2025, 4PM-5:30PM

Venue: St. Bonaventure Church

Address: 89 Po Kong Village Road, Tsz Wan Shan, Kowloon

Presenters: Friar Francesco Li OFM, Friar William Ng OFM

Composer and Performers :
Vox Antiqua, GsM Choir, Benny Chow, Kenrick Ho, Matthew Yeung, Rev. Dr. Dennis Kiang, Vansie Kwok, Ernest Hui, Eric Wong

The year 2025 is a grace-filled time, not only marked as the “Jubilee Year” of the Catholic Church, but is also the 800th Anniversary of St Francis of Assisi’s composition of The Canticle of the Creatures (also known as Canticle of the Sun), a hymn of gratitude celebrating the beauty of creation and humanity’s relationship with God. We are immensely honored that several local church composers were invited to create new renditions of The Canticle of the Creatures in Cantonese. Each composer has written a new version for the whole canticle or composed a song or a chant based on its eight sections of the Canticle.

As inspired by the Saint, the composers have elaborated the following themes:

1) The Canticle is essentially a prayer, addressed to God directly.

2) The elements: the sun, moon, wind, fire, water, earth, and death are referred to as siblings.

3) How St. Francis of Assisi described and reflected on these elements as he observed, experienced and reflected upon.

In Hymnfest 4, we are delighted to have Friar Francesco Li OFM and Friar William Ng OFM, to explain the content of The Canticle of the Creatures. Vox Antiqua, the GsM Choir and others will perform the newly created Cantonese compositions live.

For more festival programme details, please visit https://www.hkhymnosfestival.org/en/festival/programme.html

聖詠講座4：造物讚800

日期及時間：2025年11月9日 4PM-5:30PM

地點：聖文德堂

地址：九龍慈雲山蒲崗村道89號

講者：李皓朗小兄弟、伍維烈小兄弟

作曲家及演出團體 :
Vox Antiqua、天使綸音、周家明、何家祺、楊式達、姜樂雯牧師、郭蕙漩、許家臻、黃志偉

2025 年是充滿恩寵的一年，不但是教會的 「希望的禧年」，也是慶祝聖方濟‧亞西西撰寫《造物讚》（又稱太陽歌) 八百週年。我們十分榮幸獲多位本地教會作曲家響應，應邀為整首《造物讚》頌歌創作全新旋律，或按照《造物讚》八個段落創作歌曲或短誦。各作曲家受到八百年前聖人的啟發，以粵語創作新的《造物讚》版本。

激發他們創作的起點包括：

1)《造物讚》是直接向天主發出的禱告

2) 其中元素：太陽、月亮、風、火、水、地和死亡，被稱為兄弟/姊妹

3) 聖方濟如何描述他所觀察、經歷和思考的這些元素

在聖詠講座 4，我們請來兩位方濟會修士 ── 伍維烈及李皓朗小兄弟，為我們講解《造物讚》的內容，亦請來 Vox Antiqua ，天使綸音 GsM 等表演者即場演譯全新的廣東話創作。

更多2025 香港聖詠節節目詳情，請到 https://www.hkhymnosfestival.org/tc/festival/programme.html

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