{"id":14553,"date":"2013-12-03T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2013-12-07T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T04:06:33","slug":"parishioners-shocked-to-learn-there-is-more-than-one-advent-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/12\/parishioners-shocked-to-learn-there-is-more-than-one-advent-hymn\/","title":{"rendered":"Parishioners shocked to learn there is more than one Advent hymn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/small_8060908233.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14554\" alt=\"small_8060908233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/small_8060908233.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>&lt;Roto Reuters &#8211; Random Lake, WI&gt; Parishioners on Sunday at St. Nicholas of Myra were stunned to hear and to find out that there is more than one Advent Hymn. Parishioner Karla Townsend said \u201cThe opening hymn was \u2018O come, O come, Emmanuel\u2019 so I was all settled in for the normal repertoire during the rest of the Mass. Later I heard \u201dPeople look East\u201c and \u201dO Come, Divine Messiah\u201c and was shocked to realize that they also related to Advent. Who knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cantor Jaime Willis related \u201cAfter Mass many surprised people came up to me rather upset that I introduced other Advent songs. When I mentioned that next week we would be singing \u201dCreator Of The Stars Of Night\u201c, \u201dLo How a Rose E\u2019er Blooming\u201c, and \u201dRorate Caeli\u201c they weren\u2019t very happy that there were even more of them. One gentleman told me that even though he never sings at Mass, introducing new Advent hymns was way to confusing. Besides he said \u201dIf \u2018O come, O come, Emmanuel\u2019 was good enough for Advent for the last forty years it was good enough for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Alan Ray, pastor of St. Nicholas of Myra, also fielded questions from parishioners after Mass. \u201cI think I am going to have to do more catechesis regarding Advent. I now realize hardly anybody understood that Advent was a distinct liturgical season and not just \u2018Christmas warm-up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bruhsam\/8060908233\/\">Bill Ruhsam<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;Roto Reuters &#8211; Random Lake, WI&gt; Parishioners on Sunday at St. Nicholas of Myra were stunned to hear and to find out that there is more than one Advent Hymn.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14568,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions\/14568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}