{"id":1203,"date":"2019-08-01T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2019-08-01T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T01:58:24","slug":"christians-join-in-our-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/christians-join-in-our-procession\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians, join in our procession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hymns to the Mother of God are indelibly connected with pilgrimage to her many shrines – that is one reason some of them have so many verses!\u00a0 But in the hymn Christians, join in our procession (Christijane pribihajte), <\/strong>we have a spiritual song which provides an entire theology of pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

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Here is the version in the Marian Hymnal <\/em>(1984):<\/p>\n

\"Boh<\/p>\n

And here is the Slavonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussion<\/h2>\n

This is another hymn of somewhat uncertain origin – but it works well as a pilgrimage processional, and the fit of the English accents to music is not bad.<\/p>\n

I am not convinced that it is really in 4\/4 time throughout – 2\/2 might be better. Also, do you think we should include time signatures in regularly metered hymns like this one?\u00a0 (I decided against it for Beautiful Holy Queen,<\/a> but that was because part of the hymn was metered and part was in “chant style.”)<\/p>\n

There is ONE slightly bad accent: verse 1 ends, “When we praise the Mother of God”, and the half note on “of” lands rather heavily. Given the theological nature of this hymn, I propose, just this one, changing “Mother of God” to her formal title, “Theotokos”, which fits the rhythm perfectly.<\/p>\n

Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n

Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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