{"id":145203,"date":"2026-05-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145203"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:33:58","slug":"vatican-radio-our-lords-ascension-a-musical-meditation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145203","title":{"rendered":"(Vatican Radio) Our Lord\u2019s Ascension : a musical meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you can imagine, there\u2019s no shortage of fine choral music to celebrate the feast of Our Lord\u2019s Ascension says music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore. He suggests we listen is a piece of 20th century organ music written as an extended meditation and an uplifting motet for double choir by English composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2015\/05\/13\/our_lords_ascension__a_musical_meditation__\/1143739\">Read and listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mikhail Nesterov, Ascension of the Lord, c.1895 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WQZhxhaGbx\">pic.twitter.com\/WQZhxhaGbx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Solas (@solas_na_greine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solas_na_greine\/status\/1963566160261071169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can imagine, there\u2019s no shortage of fine choral music to celebrate the feast of Our Lord\u2019s Ascension says music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore. He suggests we listen is a piece of 20th century organ music written as an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145203\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ascension","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145205,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145203\/revisions\/145205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}