{"id":1778,"date":"2016-05-09T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/ascendo\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:25:28","slug":"ascendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/ascendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Fidelis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ascend to my Father, and to your Father, to my God, and your God, alleluia.&#8221; As Jesus leaves his disciples in bodily form, he reminds them (and us) that his life among us and his great sacrifice have reconciled us to the Father.<\/p>\n<p>This Mode 7 antiphon is both triumphant and loving! The opening phrase &#8220;ascends&#8221; a full octave on the phrase <em>Ascendo ad Patrem<\/em> the high point being <em>Patrem<\/em>. Jesus&#8217; joy at being reunited with his Father is expressed here! The phrase turns and brings it gently back to earth on <em>et Patrem vestrum<\/em>: the major sounds of the mode clothe the text in such a way, that it creates a sense of invitation to the listener&#8230;my Father and your Father&#8230;my God and your God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/19Antiphon_-Ascendo-Ad-Patrem.mp3\">Antiphon: Ascendo Ad Patrem<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ascendo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5626706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5626706 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ascendo-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"Ascendo\" width=\"584\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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\/cx1Cp32ulcY\" 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 &#8220;I ascend to my Father, and to your Father, to my God, and your God, alleluia.&#8221; As Jesus leaves his disciples in bodily form, he reminds them (and us) that his life among us and his great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/ascendo\/\">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-1778","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\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}