{"id":1298,"date":"2019-08-03T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:21:22","slug":"when-the-angel-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/when-the-angel-came\/","title":{"rendered":"When the angel came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hymn, whose first verse describes the Annunciation, is an enduring favorite in our church, and appears on some of our earliest recordings of the Divine Liturgy &#8211; in spite of the fact that it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been included in any of the usual collections of hymns from Europe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is a version with four verses, from the <em>Marian Hymnal<\/em> (1984):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metropolitancantorinstitute.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/When_the_angel_came.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1299\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolitancantorinstitute.org\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/When_the_angel_came.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/When_the_angel_came.png 646w, https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/When_the_angel_came-300x292.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\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolitancantorinstitute.org\/blog\/songs\/Slavonic\/Anhel_Bozij_vozvistil_ta.html\">here is the Slavonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Discussion<\/h2>\n<p>Verses 1 and 2 describe the Incarnation and Visitation; verses 3 and 4 present the Dormition (Assumption) and Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven\u00a0 &#8211; all mysteries of the Rosary.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard that there are fifteen verses in all, one for each Mystery; can anyone point to a source, or provide a text? (This would certainly explain the early popularity of this hymn.)<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">Thoughts or suggestions?<\/h2>\n<p>Please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hymn, whose first verse describes the Annunciation, is an enduring favorite in our church, and appears on some of our earliest recordings of the Divine Liturgy &#8211; in spite of the fact that it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been included in any of the usual collections of hymns from Europe.<\/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\/1298"}],"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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}