{"id":1242,"date":"2019-08-02T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T21:30:57","slug":"o-virgin-mary-mother-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/o-virgin-mary-mother-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"O Virgin Mary, Mother of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, all hymns to the Mother of God in our 1978 pew book were also included in the 1984 <em>Marian Hymnal<\/em>.\u00a0 This one is an exception.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here is the text from the old pew book, set to Fr. V. Matyuk&#8217;s melody for <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/songs\/Slavonic\/O_Bohorodice_Divo_Marije.html\">O Bohorodice, D&#8217;ivo Marije<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/O_Virgin_Mary_Mother_of_God.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1243\" src=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/O_Virgin_Mary_Mother_of_God.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/O_Virgin_Mary_Mother_of_God.png 646w, https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/O_Virgin_Mary_Mother_of_God-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Discussion<\/h2>\n<p>The melody is singable; the text emphasizes one of the traditional titles of the Theotokos, and also shows her progress (and ours!) from sorrow to joy.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know the reason for its omission in the Marian Hymnal?<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, all hymns to the Mother of God in our 1978 pew book were also included in the 1984 Marian Hymnal.\u00a0 This one is an exception.<\/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\/1242"}],"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=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}