{"id":2475,"date":"2007-11-30T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/ou-donc-est-ta-demeure\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T07:30:14","slug":"ou-donc-est-ta-demeure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/ou-donc-est-ta-demeure\/","title":{"rendered":"Où donc est ta demeure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA number of years ago, I composed music for a French Office hymn for the feast of Saint Andrew. It was a feastday gift for Dom André, O.Cist. The text spoke to me very powerfully. A melody for it came to me all at once, in a kind of stream of inspiration.<\/small>
\nWhy was I so touched by the text of this hymn when I first discovered it? There was something in it that connected deeply with the Magnificat Antiphon of the feast:<\/small><\/p>\n

When blessed Andrew came to the place where the Cross had been prepared, he cried out and said: O goodly Cross, so long desired, and now made ready for my eager spirit; fearless and joyful do I come to thee; therefore, receive me also gladly, as the disciple of him who hung upon thee. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was something else too: in the text of the hymn were many things deeply related to my own life experience.<\/small>
\nAs I prayed over the day’s texts, it occurred to me that I might translate the text of this hymn. It is being sung in a number of French-speaking monasteries today. Accept it as a kind of meditatio<\/strong><\/em>, as way of repeating the Word in other words. This hymn has been for many a kind of gift; may it speak to your heart as compellingly as it first spoke to mine.<\/small>
\nWhere then is Thine abode,
\nO Lamb of God who invitest us?
\nCould it already be the tenth hour
\nfor the disciple who set out to seek Thee?
\nFor who canst know the day and hour
\nwhen Thou wilt turn to us and say:
\nCome and see!
\nThe joy of meeting Thee
\nis a transfiguring brightness:
\na flame in this world’s night
\nsince Thy Pascha’s dazzling light.
\nShine Thou within and overcome the darkness,
\nthat we may hear the Spirit’s murmur:
\nJesus is Lord!
\nFilled now with Thy presence,
\nO God, our every dawn indwelling,
\nwe announce to all who seek Thee
\na burning joy, an incandescence.
\nThou, Thou alone canst tell us
\nhow that cry first didst pierce the silence:
\nBlessèd those who believe!
\nLord, shall we not then follow Thee
\nwith the faith of those fishers of men?
\nIn this night of catching nothing
\nwe know Thy hands are full.
\nStand again on this our shore,
\nand cry Thou to us once more:
\nCast the net!
\nOn the threshold of Thy dwelling
\nThy Cross shall be our sign;
\nfor each apostle will have his hour
\njust as Thou didst have Thine.
\nStay Thou with us, God our Master,
\nto sing in Thy disciples:
\nHail, Cross of Life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of years ago, I composed music for a French Office hymn for the feast of Saint Andrew. It was a feastday gift for Dom André, O.Cist. The text spoke to me very powerfully. A melody for it came to me all at once, in a kind of stream of inspiration. Why was I <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-DV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}