{"id":1213,"date":"2019-08-02T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2019-08-02T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T04:20:09","slug":"mother-of-all-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/mother-of-all-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of all people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a less well-known entry from the <em>Marian Hymnal<\/em> &#8211; but I find it refreshingly straightforward, and the sort of song that is simply fun to sing, particularly with children.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is the version in the <em>Marian Hymnal <\/em>(1984):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/songs\/images\/Mother_of_all_people.png\" alt=\"Boh predvicnyj\" width=\"650\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/songs\/Slavonic\/O_Marije_Mati_vsich.html\">Slavonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Discussion<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Like Mary, mother of us all, this song is of somewhat uncertain origin; but unlike that other hymn, it is eminently singable, and the text makes sense. (It might be particularly worth using with children.)&#8217;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One quibble: many of our songs and liturgical texts refer to Mary as the<em> Mother of Christians<\/em>, citing our Lord&#8217;s words to Saint John at the foot of the Cross (&#8220;Behold your mother&#8221;; John 19:27). This spiritual song, at least in the English translation, gives Mary a much more universal role.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I would probably omit it in a small collection of Marian hymns, but if there is room to include it (as is most likely), we should.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a less well-known entry from the Marian Hymnal &#8211; but I find it refreshingly straightforward, and the sort of song that is simply fun to sing, particularly with children.<\/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\/1213"}],"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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}