{"id":839,"date":"2014-12-08T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-return-of-the-trumpet\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:00:28","slug":"the-return-of-the-trumpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-return-of-the-trumpet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Trumpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cantor<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the Introit intonation chant for the feast of<em> Christ in Glory\u00a0<\/em>was reminiscent of a trumpet call. Last week, the first week of Advent, the chants sounded full of incredible supplication and beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the 2nd week of Advent, the &#8220;trumpet&#8221; intonation returns in the Introit\u00a0<em>Populus Sion, ecce Dominus veniet et ad salvandos gentes<\/em> (People of Sion, behold the Lord comes to save the Gentiles.) \u00a0This introit, unlike that from last week, is a regal pronouncement, meant to get our attention and give us the answer to the outcry heard in <em>Ad te levav<\/em>i.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of the chants through the church year, the melodies and the texts of the Advent chants are meant to take us on a journey. The sound of this introit tells us that this is no ordinary person coming to save us, but a person of great power.\u00a0 Advent presents us with both the human and divine personality of Christ. The sound of<em> Populus Sion <\/em>leaves no doubt that the King who is coming is God himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4088312\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/populus-sion-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/pIiCAErEWCc\" 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 Cantor Two weeks ago, the Introit intonation chant for the feast of Christ in Glory\u00a0was reminiscent of a trumpet call. Last week, the first week of Advent, the chants sounded full of incredible supplication and beauty. Now, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-return-of-the-trumpet\/\">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-839","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}