{"id":56608,"date":"2016-12-07T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/this_world_wonders_st_ambrose_and_a_medieval_advent_carol_inspired_by_veni_\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:00:25","slug":"this_world_wonders_st_ambrose_and_a_medieval_advent_carol_inspired_by_veni_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56608","title":{"rendered":"&#39;This world wonders&#39;: St Ambrose and a medieval Advent carol inspired by &#39;Veni Redemptor Gentium&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;This world wonders&#39;: St Ambrose and a medieval Advent carol inspired by &#39;Veni Redemptor Gentium&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YwfzNo0hOY\">https:\/\/t.co\/YwfzNo0hOY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QPPdPN6TqZ\">pic.twitter.com\/QPPdPN6TqZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/806407254752759808\">December 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a rather clever little carol. Like &#8216;As I lay upon a night&#8217;, which I posted the other day, it keeps to one rhyme throughout for the English lines, and it&#8217;s properly macaronic; as I read it, the Latin refrain completes the meaning of each verse, so that for instance verse 1 presents a puzzle &#8211; &#8216;how could a maiden conceive a king?&#8217; &#8211; and then asks for the solution: &#8216;To show all us how this could be, come, Redeemer of the nations&#8217;. Such a strategy implies a certain comfort with the Latin and with this particular hymn, the ability to use the hymn as a starting point for a more general meditation. It begins by picking up on a line from the first verse of the hymn, miretur omne saeculum, which becomes (with a grammatical shift) this carol&#8217;s first line: &#8216;this world wonders above all things&#8230;&#8217; This carol is full of &#8216;wonder&#8217;, in both senses of the word: the wonder at which the world wonders is specifically the Virgin Birth, &#8216;how a maid conceived a king&#8217;, and where the hymn goes on to consider various other aspects and images of the Incarnation, this carol dwells, still wondering, on that one idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/12\/veni-redemptor-gentium-this-world.html\">Read it all<\/a> from Eleanor Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;This world wonders&#39;: St Ambrose and a medieval Advent carol inspired by &#39;Veni Redemptor Gentium&#39; https:\/\/t.co\/YwfzNo0hOY pic.twitter.com\/QPPdPN6TqZ &mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) December 7, 2016 This is a rather clever little carol. Like &#8216;As I lay upon a night&#8217;, which I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56608\">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":[48,574,162,186,187,183,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-advent","category-christology","category-church-history","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608","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=56608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}