{"id":1327,"date":"2015-04-13T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-44\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:00:40","slug":"gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Chant: The Eternal Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Fidelis<\/p>\n<p><em>Easter 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second Sunday of Easter is full of spiritual meaning and has been given several different names over the centuries.\u00a0 It is known as &#8220;Low Sunday&#8221;, because it finishes the Octave of Easter.\u00a0 It is also known as &#8220;Quasi modo Sunday.&#8221;\u00a0 This immediately brings to mind Victor Hugo&#8217;s protagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but the name is actually taken from the first words of the Introit for that day!\u00a0\u00a0 1 Peter 2:2,\u00a0reads: &#8220;As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a word to those newly baptized on Easter Eve.\u00a0 The introit is a simple chant in Mode 6, punctuated with Alleluias. &#8220;St. Thomas Sunday&#8221; is also a name given to the day, perhaps because the Communion for that day is Mitte manum, Jesus&#8217; words to Thomas: &#8220;Place your hand in my side and be not faithless but believing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is such a connection between the chant and the liturgy!\u00a0 These well-known melodies actually helped to identify the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4690690\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0507-e1428856423513-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/3flXaVTbPIc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Fidelis Easter 2 The second Sunday of Easter is full of spiritual meaning and has been given several different names over the centuries.\u00a0 It is known as &#8220;Low Sunday&#8221;, because it finishes the Octave of Easter.\u00a0 It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-44\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}