{"id":1245,"date":"2019-08-02T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2019-08-02T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T22:05:08","slug":"purest-mother-people-of-the-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/purest-mother-people-of-the-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Purest Mother, people of the homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although short, this is a delightful hymn to the Mother of God &#8211; comcrete and almost iconographic in its appeal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Slavonic version in the Marian Hymnal (1984) had two alternative first lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purest Mother, the Rusyn homeland sings of your graciousness.<\/li>\n<li>Purest Mother, people of the homeland sing of your graciousness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the proposed MCI hymnal, I have chosen to use just the second version, since it is more direct (people are singing, some of the here, and not merely a far-way land), and also because our church historically includes Magyars, Croats and Romanians as well as Rusyns.<\/p>\n<p>I also made on other change: where the Marian Hymnal has<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Heaven and earth all sing your praises<\/p>\n<p>I decided to keep Father Levkulic&#8217;s translation, which is closer to the original Slavonic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Saints and angels with them sing your praises<\/p>\n<p>which also emphasizes that those in heaven and earth are singing WITH the &#8220;people of the homeland&#8221;, and with us.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Purest_Mother_people_of_the_homeland.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Purest_Mother_people_of_the_homeland.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Purest_Mother_people_of_the_homeland.png 651w, https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Purest_Mother_people_of_the_homeland-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">The Slavonic version has been edited to match:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Precistaja_Divo_Mati_naseho_kraju.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1255\" src=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Precistaja_Divo_Mati_naseho_kraju.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Precistaja_Divo_Mati_naseho_kraju.png 642w, https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Precistaja_Divo_Mati_naseho_kraju-300x175.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\">Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although short, this is a delightful hymn to the Mother of God &#8211; 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