{"id":567,"date":"2014-08-11T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-11\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:00:23","slug":"gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Chant: The Eternal Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cantor<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Listening<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, I was sitting in Sunday Eucharist felling quite preoccupied. I found myself chanting more out of rote than with my heart engaged. The schola that was chanting the service was doing a lovely job and I really wanted to listen but had a hard time doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The time came for the Gradual. The text that morning referred to Christ. Suddenly &#8211; it seemed to me &#8211; I was hearing the musical motive from the opening of the famous Christmas Eve chant introit, <em>Dominus dixit ad me<\/em>. That gentle chant for Christmas eve was now a trumpet call in my ear.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, I felt that God had reached straight through that chant, tapped me on the shoulder and said, &#8220;Remember that I am right here&#8221;. God had regained my attention and it changed that entire worship service for me! Once again, the chant was God&#8217;s own voice, calling me to listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ed-f20r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087359\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ed-f20r-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.umkc.edu\/spec-col\/chantbook\/intro.htm\">library.umkc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/15t5rt4vCOM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/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 Cantor\u00a0 Listening Two weeks ago, I was sitting in Sunday Eucharist felling quite preoccupied. I found myself chanting more out of rote than with my heart engaged. The schola that was chanting the service was doing a lovely job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-11\/\">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-567","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\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}