{"id":1098,"date":"2018-11-23T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:24:32","slug":"o-father-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/o-father-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"O Father Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the work on the hymnal project so far, we have considered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a liturgical refrain turned into a spiritual song (&#8220;Come, O Jesus&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>an old (1970&#8217;s) paraliturgical hymn (&#8220;The Ancient Prophecies&#8221;), which required some work and benefited greatly from collaborative input<\/li>\n<li>a more recent paraliturgical hymn (&#8220;Truly, Zion&#8217;s People&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three of these were in English, and for the time of the St. Phillip&#8217;s Fast (November 15-December 24).<\/p>\n<p>Next, I&#8217;d like to take a look at our first hymn which has both Rusyn Slavonic and English Versions: the first of our two hymns to the bishop and wonder-worker Nicholas, archbishop of Myra in Lycia, whose feast is December 6.<\/p>\n<p>This hymn was included in both the 1978 Divine Liturgies book and the MCI Byzantine Catholic Hymnal &#8211; but as you&#8217;ll see in the article, it has some issues to resolve before I can consider it in final form.<\/p>\n<p>Read the following web page (which ends up covering quite a few topics, including two other hymns) and post your comments and questions here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/songs\/discuss\/O_Father_Nicholas.html\">O Father Nicholas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the work on the hymnal project so far, we have considered: a liturgical refrain turned into a spiritual song (&#8220;Come, O Jesus&#8221;) an old (1970&#8217;s) paraliturgical hymn (&#8220;The Ancient Prophecies&#8221;), which required some work and benefited greatly from collaborative input a more recent paraliturgical hymn (&#8220;Truly, Zion&#8217;s People&#8221;) All three of these were in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/o-father-nicholas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Father Nicholas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}