{"id":14273,"date":"2014-03-25T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2014-03-25T07:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:43:47","slug":"lenten-requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/lenten-requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"Something for Lent: This Amazing Requiem (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use this as a vehicle for worship today. It is the very definition of art.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The beauty of this short performance comes to us, like most great art, bittersweet\u2013for it reveals both the masterpiece and fragility of humankind. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The beauty of voice, musical composition, and the sorrow of a requiem needing to be sung at all. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It also evokes the hope of blessed rest and solace of the great Comforter.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14274\" alt=\"evancho\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho-300x181.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho-350x211.png 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho-600x362.png 600w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/evancho.png 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1986, this Requiem\u00a0earned Lloyd Webber a Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. It was composed in a style unlike any of his other works after the sudden death of his father.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike a traditional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/classicalmusic.about.com\/od\/classicalmusic101\/a\/requiemmass.htm\">requiem mass<\/a>, Lloyd Webber combined the texts of the Pie Jesu and Agnus Dei.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here is vocal prodigy, Jackie Evancho, performing it. (Scroll down to read the lyrics in both Latin and English)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRM1yotDgB8?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Pie Jesu&#8221; Latin Lyrics<\/b><br \/>\nPie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu<br \/>\nQui tollis peccata mundi<br \/>\nDona eis requiem, dona eis requiem<br \/>\nPie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu<br \/>\nQui tollis peccata mundi<br \/>\nDona eis requiem, dona eis requiem<br \/>\nAgnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei<br \/>\nQui tollis peccata mundi<br \/>\nDona eis requiem, dona eis requiem<br \/>\nSempiternam<br \/>\nSempiternam<br \/>\nRequiem<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Pie Jesu&#8221; English Lyrics<\/b><br \/>\nMerciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus<br \/>\nFather, who takes away the sins of the world<br \/>\nGrant them rest, grant them rest<br \/>\nMerciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus<br \/>\nFather, who takes away the sins of the world<br \/>\nGrant them rest, grant them rest<br \/>\nLamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God<br \/>\nFather, who takes away the sins of the world<br \/>\nGrant them rest, grant them rest<br \/>\neverlasting<br \/>\neverlasting<br \/>\nRest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If you enjoyed this, please share it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of this short performance is bittersweet for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76],"tags":[190,4378,362,5325,5354,927,4697,37,1763,1953,4452,2099,53,2530,4483,2860,5646,5892,4694,3444,91],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-spirituality","tag-amazing","tag-be","tag-beauty","tag-best","tag-blessed","tag-death","tag-down","tag-hope","tag-in","tag-lamb","tag-lenten","tag-lyrics","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-pie","tag-rest","tag-share","tag-solace","tag-sorrow","tag-time","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}