{"id":1846,"date":"2016-07-20T09:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-word\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:21:20","slug":"the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Fidelis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have wonderful and stimulating disagreements in our scholas! It is thrilling when schola members are so engaged that the small details matter \u2014 the lengthening of a note, the shaping of a particular neume \u2014 all in an effort to bring out the meaning of a word or phrase within a chant. That being said, however, I would like to offer us a quote this week from Dom Eugene Cardine about the final goal of chant:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGregorian Chant is a sung word, a sacred word which comes to us from God in Holy Writ and returns to God in praise\u2026we must so greatly assimilate the result of our work that we end up by forgetting technique so that the listener does not hear it either\u2026May good sense guide us and keep us halfway between inaccessible perfection and a routine which is too easily satisfied with anything at all.\u201d (pp. xxviii-xxxi, The Restoration of Gregorian Chant, Dom Pierre Combe, trans. Marier\/Skinner, Catholic University of America Press, 2003.)<\/p>\n<p>May all of our discussions have this blessed ending!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregorian_chant3.14.14-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4082442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregorian_chant3.14.14-1.jpg\" alt=\"gregorian_chant3.14.14 (1)\" width=\"255\" height=\"252\" \/><\/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\/jC4ZMhw4CcA\" 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 We have wonderful and stimulating disagreements in our scholas! It is thrilling when schola members are so engaged that the small details matter \u2014 the lengthening of a note, the shaping of a particular neume \u2014 all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-word\/\">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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","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=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}