{"id":47578,"date":"2019-06-28T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=47578"},"modified":"2019-07-05T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:22:03","slug":"introitus-st-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/introitus-st-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"INTROITUS: St. Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mihi-autem.jpg\" alt=\"Graduale Novum. Editio magis critica iuxta SC 117. Tomus II: De feriis et sanctis, p. 143-144. (c) ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft\/Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2018.\" class=\"wp-image-47549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mihi-autem.jpg 570w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mihi-autem-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mihi-autem-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mihi-autem-399x400.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conbrio.de\/content\/buch\/graduale-novum-de-dominicis-et-festis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graduale Novum. Editio magis critica iuxta SC 117. Tomus II: De feriis et sanctis, p. 143-144. (c) ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft\/Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2018.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mihi autem nimis honorati sunt amici tui, Deus: nimis\nconfortatus est principatus eorum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVery honorable\nare your friends for me, God, very much strengthened is their predominance.\u201d\n(Ps 139(138):17)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salicus.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mihi-autem.mp4\">Click here to listen to an audio of the chant.<\/a><br><em>Sung by Liborius Lumma, Innsbruck (Austria).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the composer\nof this chant, the word <em>nimis<\/em> (very\nmuch) must have been very important. In the first line, he prepares it will all\nthe tension in the previous word <em>autem<\/em>,\nin the second line, he trebles the unstressed final syllable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we\ncelebrate Saints, we see Christian life like through a burning glass. Something\nthat we all know and that all have in us is multiplied in those personalities:\nFaith, courage, suffering, effort \u2013 for every element of human life, you can\nfind the matching Saint who managed to deal with it in an exemplary way. The\napostle Thomas had the courage to doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mihi autem nimis honorati sunt amici tui &#8211; Very honorable are your friends for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":47549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3119,19,3302,91,21],"tags":[1085,1038],"class_list":["post-47578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-mass","category-introitus","category-liturgical-year","category-music-chant","tag-gregorian-chant","tag-introit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INTROITUS: St. Thomas - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/introitus-st-thomas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INTROITUS: St. Thomas - 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