{"id":1265,"date":"2019-08-03T06:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2019-08-03T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:16:51","slug":"rejoice-o-purest-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/rejoice-o-purest-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice, O purest Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our hymns to the Mother of God are supplications &#8211; requests for her aid and protection.\u00a0 This song, on the other hand, is an extended praise of Mary the Theotokos in her heavenly glory; it is most frequently sung in connection with the feast of her Dormition on August 15.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is the version in the <em>Marian Hymnal <\/em>(1984):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rejoice_O_purest_Mother.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1266\" src=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rejoice_O_purest_Mother.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rejoice_O_purest_Mother.png 644w, https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rejoice_O_purest_Mother-300x261.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\">And here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/songs\/Slavonic\/Veselisja_vo_cistoti.html\">Slavonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Discussion<\/h2>\n<p>The refrain, of course, IS a supplication, but even there it names her &#8220;heaven&#8217;s Queen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\">Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our hymns to the Mother of God are supplications &#8211; requests for her aid and protection.\u00a0 This song, on the other hand, is an extended praise of Mary the Theotokos in her heavenly glory; it is most frequently sung in connection with the feast of her Dormition on August 15.<\/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\/1265"}],"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=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}