I've loved this since two years ago when some friends were singing it around Pascha, and shortly after we found out my niece had cancer. She made it through, God bestowed life on her alleluia. Now this spring I grieve a dear friend, and I still find this hymn a balm.
Honest question here, trying to stay on the tightrope of curiosity without certainty: When you run the words through your body about sinners perishing and enemies melting and such, what do you imagine you are naming in the world? Seems like it would be hard to stay clear of all the ancient magnetic bits, the iron filings of ancestral violence that must still have some presence in such ambiguous spells?
I've been listening to that particular Georgian hymn over and over. Last Pascha I combed the Internet to find all the recordings of it I could, so I could learn it. A few of our men sang it in English at the end of Paschal Vespers this afternoon. It's the best. Christ is risen!
Christ is risen! A blessed Paschaltide to you, Graham!
Christ is risen!
I've loved this since two years ago when some friends were singing it around Pascha, and shortly after we found out my niece had cancer. She made it through, God bestowed life on her alleluia. Now this spring I grieve a dear friend, and I still find this hymn a balm.
Honest question here, trying to stay on the tightrope of curiosity without certainty: When you run the words through your body about sinners perishing and enemies melting and such, what do you imagine you are naming in the world? Seems like it would be hard to stay clear of all the ancient magnetic bits, the iron filings of ancestral violence that must still have some presence in such ambiguous spells?
I've been listening to that particular Georgian hymn over and over. Last Pascha I combed the Internet to find all the recordings of it I could, so I could learn it. A few of our men sang it in English at the end of Paschal Vespers this afternoon. It's the best. Christ is risen!
Thank you for the choral singing. Very grateful. Moving.
Truly He Is Risen!
Wow!