{"id":1727,"date":"2016-04-25T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/i-am-the-true-vine\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:55:49","slug":"i-am-the-true-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/i-am-the-true-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Am the True Vine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>By Sr. Fidelis<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This Week 5 Communion is almost an extension of last week&#8217;s, &#8220;I am the Good Shepherd.&#8221; The opening motive is the same, and again we see the energizing &#8220;salicus&#8221; no less than 4 times in the first line of the chant!\u00a0 Last week&#8217;s piece was in Mode 2, and this one is Mode 8, but the relationship of the half step is the same in the opening motive.\u00a0 Here we see it as Ti-Do.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe most &#8220;florid&#8221; word in the entire chant occurs on the word <i>vera<\/i> &#8211; &#8220;true&#8221;, almost as if it is &#8220;growing&#8221;. \u00a0 The climax is reached at the culmination of the text, &#8220;he is the one who produces much fruit&#8221; &#8211; <i>hic fert<\/i> <i>fructum multum<\/i>.\u00a0 The last two alleluias are unique in that the first one outlines an upward triad belonging to Mode 7 &#8211; SOL-TI-RE, then the final one gently descends from DO to LA, to the Hometone SOL.\u00a0 The &#8220;salicus&#8221; is again evident in these final alleluias, giving a sense of energy and &#8220;growth&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/09-Communion-Ego-Sum-Vitis.mp3\">Communion &#8211; Ego Sum Vitis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ego-Sum-Vitis-Vera.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5626620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5626620 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ego-Sum-Vitis-Vera-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"Ego Sum Vitis Vera\" width=\"584\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/sp5p0wyPa5Q\" 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 This Week 5 Communion is almost an extension of last week&#8217;s, &#8220;I am the Good Shepherd.&#8221; The opening motive is the same, and again we see the energizing &#8220;salicus&#8221; no less than 4 times in the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/i-am-the-true-vine\/\">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-1727","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\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}