{"id":66338,"date":"2017-12-18T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=66338"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T23:03:21","slug":"music-monday-let-all-mortal-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/music-monday-let-all-mortal-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Let all mortal flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/CLMCamSibn4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/>Oh&#8230;my&#8230;goodness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have always\u00a0enjoyed the song &#8220;Let all mortal flesh&#8221;. My love of this song deepened as I dug into Church History and discovered these words were part of the ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/liturgy-of-st-james\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liturgy of St. James<\/a>. Although most people associate this song with Christ&#8217;s coming at Christmas, both the lyrics and this early liturgical setting point, not to Christ&#8217;s coming\u00a0two thousand years ago, but to His coming to us on the altar at every Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having always loved the song, this weekend my love was taken to new depths. On Saturday I heard a new version of this song by Sarah Kroger on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicplaylistshow.com\/playlist-shows\/s4e32-catholic-playlist-183\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Catholic Playlist Show<\/a>. Since then, I have played little else . The orchestration and Sarah&#8217;s phenomenal voice, as clear as glass, have such a transcendent quality&#8230;wow&#8230;.just&#8230;..wow.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLMCamSibn4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Let all mortal flesh keep silence,<br \/>\nAnd with fear and trembling stand;<br \/>\nPonder nothing earthly-minded,<br \/>\nFor with blessing in His hand,<br \/>\nChrist our God to earth descendeth,<br \/>\nOur full homage to demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">King of kings, yet born of Mary,<br \/>\nAs of old on earth He stood,<br \/>\nLord of lords, in human vesture,<br \/>\nIn the body and the blood;<br \/>\nHe will give to all the faithful<br \/>\nHis own self for heav\u2019nly food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Rank on rank the host of heaven<br \/>\nSpreads its vanguard on the way,<br \/>\nAs the Light of light descendeth<br \/>\nFrom the realms of endless day,<br \/>\nThat the pow\u2019rs of hell may vanish<br \/>\nAs the darkness clears away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">At His feet the six-winged seraph,<br \/>\nCherubim with sleepless eye,<br \/>\nVeil their faces to the presence,<br \/>\nAs with ceaseless voice they cry:<br \/>\n\u201cAlleluia, Alleluia,<br \/>\nAlleluia, Lord Most High!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh&#8230;my&#8230;goodness&#8230; I have always\u00a0enjoyed the song &#8220;Let all mortal flesh&#8221;. My love of this song deepened as I dug into Church History and discovered these words were part of the ancient Liturgy of St. James. Although most people associate this song with Christ&#8217;s coming at Christmas, both the lyrics and this early liturgical setting point, not to Christ&#8217;s coming\u00a0two thousand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496],"tags":[4599,789,4338],"class_list":["post-66338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-let-all-mortal-flesh","tag-liturgy-of-st-james","tag-sarah-kroger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66343,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338\/revisions\/66343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}