tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post6100876086314680971..comments2024-01-12T04:58:49.069-05:00Comments on Kyrie, Eleison!: Sentimental FantasiesAnastasia Theodoridishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-56242069299555562542007-09-13T06:55:00.000-04:002007-09-13T06:55:00.000-04:00No, I meant that the condition of continual praise...No, I meant that the condition of continual praise which will be our life at the eschaton and in which we are called to live even now and to grow in constantly, is the perspective from which this hymn is written. A life that is praise - or as another hymn in our hymnal expresses it:<BR/><BR/>Each life a high doxology to Father, Son, and unto Thee.<BR/><BR/>So "Awake my soul" speaks out from that realized eschatological perspective, if you will. Where praise simply is the fabric of one's day. May He grant us to grow into it more and more!William Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-28191109830783954752007-09-12T23:49:00.000-04:002007-09-12T23:49:00.000-04:00I do not understand. Are there going to be mornin...I do not understand. Are there going to be mornings in the eschaton, and skies, and work as distinct from prayer?<BR/><BR/>The Psalm can be understood as resolve or aspiration not needing to await the end of days. The hymn, I don't know...could be, doesn't *sound* much like it.<BR/><BR/>AnastasiaAnastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-83167500797064656282007-09-12T21:25:00.000-04:002007-09-12T21:25:00.000-04:00About the hymn "Awake my soul" - how it is differe...About the hymn "Awake my soul" - how it is different than taking up the words of Psalm 34 onto your lips and proclaiming: "I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth!"? There are times God's people sing FROM the life to which they are headed and which is only theirs in fraction now as though it were wholly theirs. It's not so much being sentimental as being eschatological. That's where we're headed in Christ!William Weedonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-75165385049871022952007-09-12T08:59:00.000-04:002007-09-12T08:59:00.000-04:00Your thoughts reminded me of the fact that as a Lu...Your thoughts reminded me of the fact that as a Lutheran pastor, "worship" was the topic of one or two courses in four years of Seminary training (one of those years was spent in a parish doing whatever the pastor there did). Whether it is intended or not, "worship" is treated as one of those side things that one can do with as one pleases. <BR/><BR/>Hymnody chamges, too, with each generation and each hymnbook -- and unfortunately, in western churches, the ancient hymnody treasured in Orthodoxy gets very little representation.<BR/><BR/>Divine Liturgy, as well as other services are of the essence of our life in Christ. And hymnody must be very carefully managed -- as it is in the Divine Liturgy, where the faith is sung, taught, confessed.<BR/><BR/>I've always (even as a Lutheran pastor) wondered at TV funerals and even many in the congregation: in my years, at least for the last decade, the funeral was the liturgy appointed, without lots of other things going on or people speaking. No shows, no endless eulogies. <BR/><BR/>Some Wednesday thoughts ....<BR/><BR/> Ezekiel+Ezekielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297200009180074853noreply@blogger.com