#o euchari

[visualpoett]

Hildegard von Bingen , "O Euchari" 1985

[ohholydyke]

do you have a favorite HIldegard von Bingen hymn? I only know O Euchari in leta via but I just adore it.

Yes! Both of these get at St. Hildegard’s approach of everything being interconnected and working towards care and unity through God, and the idea of the Holy Spirit as a comforter and healer for the wounded and self-punishing, core aspects of St. Hildegard’s work that I’m attached to.

[winged-cries]

why is this version such a bop

[wrishwrosh]

1 & 14 for the year end ask?

hello i love you i will continue proselytizing

1. song of the year

netta perseus by lankum sun, the mountain by steve earle moon, o euchari in leta via by hildegard von bingen rising

14. favorite book you read this year

idk if it’s my favorite but the giant, o’brien by hilary mantel has reeeeeeally stuck with me. i spent an inordinate amount of time this year thinking about and chewing on and pulling the stuffing out of historical fiction and one thing that has become more apparent the more i read is the weird role that genre awareness plays in historical fiction?

like with some books you can kind of run your hand over the narrative and feel the shapes of the types of sources the author used to put the story together, and as a big research fan and citations reader i often like this! however it also is extra apparent when the author has failed to research enough to support the story or failed to provide enough story to cover the research. in this metaphor historical fiction is a big tent idk. and some authors when sensing some failing in their tent inject a weird vibe of self awareness of their stance or their reader’s stance as a Person In The Present? which then so often feels more like a patronizing cop out?

but what hilary mantel does if you will excuse my continuing to strangle this metaphor is balance the story and the research and the awareness of both as one scaffolding so smooth it’s genuinely inseparable from itself. it stops being a tent and starts being an edifice. having read the cromwell trilogy and now currently reading a place of greater safety it was really interesting to read a novel of hers that feels like more of a meditation on the process? her thinking through the mechanics of her type of storytelling? everyone go read hilary mantel.

[ithisatanytime]

(DJ FLUFFIE)

wives were too ugly, true detective season one is my absolute limit

[kafkaoftherubble]

哇，以前的我的taste很不错嘛！

I forgot how much we loved this song until it just got randomly dug out from my Liked playlist!

This was added in by 2019 Lyndis, who was reminded of this song by a random play from a local playlist stored in Kyle Hyde [our first retainer, "laptop"], which was added likely in 2016.

Another one of this "hey, good taste, old Lyndises!" is this one!

[brother-joseph]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Miracles of the Eucharist Special Documentary DVD by Bob & Penny Lord, New.

[the-merry-otter]

Go listen to these and then maybe you’ll calm down

But that’s my emotional support 12th century nun music :(

[thelovelygods]

16, 23, 26, 28❤️

Sorry, I started to answer this and then forgot about it. 🤦‍♀️

16. One of your favorite classical songs?

Moonlight Sonata I guess? That might actually be the only classical song I know lmao tbh it's not really my genre.

23. A song that you think everybody should listen to?

Right now it's "labour" by Paris Paloma.

26. A song that makes you want to fall in love?

"Be Kind" by Halsey, I think it's such a sweet, heartfelt song.

28. A song by an artist with a voice that you love?

"O Euchari" by Azam Ali

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

12 Jan., ‘21

[rotgospels]

o euchari in leta via + running up that hill + o rubor sanguinis + hunger florence and the machine

i have definitely listened to this exact sequence of songs at least twice before 

Send me anonymously a song you think matches my vibe. 

[globalworship]

O Euchari (Hildegard von Bingen) sung by Azam Ali

First, a note on the singer who I’ve followed for decades:

Azam Ali (Persian: اعظم علی‎) is a well-known Iranian singer and musician. Ali has released ten albums with the bands VAS and Niyaz and friends, as well as multiple solo albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azam_Ali

In this video from summer 2020, she sings a famous song composed by Hildegard von Bingen. Information on the song below, including English translation of the lyrics.

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Azam Ali wrote about this song:

Composed by 12th Century Christian mystic, writer, composer, philosopher, Hildegard Von Bingen, a visionary who left behind a treasure trove of illuminated manuscripts, treatises on theology, medicine, botany, the arts, & above all her extraordinary music.

It is her music & this very song in fact which I heard at the age of 18, that made me want to sing. I was originally going to record this for my 2002 album "Portals of Grace" but settled on another composition of hers. 

Hildegard for me is a feminist icon whose contributions to the canon of universal spirituality & mysticism, are immeasurable. Her work transcends centuries & musical, religious/mystical genres. It awakened me to the ancient philosophy of "The Music of the Spheres.” That if the human body is made entirely of elements forged by stars, then indeed we are celestial bodies & the cosmos is within us. If the rotation of heavenly spheres produce tones & harmony, then they must resonate within us. Thus, music in its most sublime form, is our participation in the harmony of the universe. That we may bring some harmony to our souls in our longing to return to our celestial home.

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For the Latin lyrics, go to https://lyricstranslate.com/en/o-euchari-leta-o-st-eucharius.html which is also the source for this English translation:

1a. O St. Eucharius, you walked upon the blessed way when with the Son of God you stayed— you touched the man and saw with your own eyes his miracles.

1b. You loved him perfectly while your companions trembled, frightened by their mere humanity, unable as they were to gaze entirely upon the good.

2a. But you embraced him in the ardent love of fullest charity— you gathered to yourself the bundles of his sweet commands.

2b. O St. Eucharius, so deeply blessed you were when God’s Word drenched you in the fire of the dove illumined like the dawn you laid and built upon the Church’s one foundation.

3a. And in your breast burst forth the light of day— the gleam in which three tents upon a marble pillar stand within the City of our God.

3b. For through your mouth the Church can savor the wine both old and new— the cup of sanctity.

4a. Yet in your teaching, too, the Church embraced her rationality— her voice cried out above the peaks to call the hills and woods to be laid low, to suck upon her breasts.

4b. Now in your crystal voice pray to the Son of God for this community, lest it should fail in serving God, but rather as a living sacrifice might burn before the altar of our God.

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Some of the meaning:

O Euchari, like Columba aspexit, was almost certainly written for the clergy at Trier. Saint Eucharius was a third-century missionary who became the bishop of the city. Stanza one evokes his years as an itinerant preacher (during which he performed miracles). The ‘fellow-travellers’ of stanza two are presumably Valerius and Maternus, his companions in the missionary work. The ‘three shrines’ of stanza five (compare Matthew 17: 4) represent the Trinity and perhaps, if we follow the Glossa Ordinaria, the triple piety of words, thoughts and deeds. The ‘old and the new wine’ of stanza six represent the Testaments: Ecclesia savours both, but the Synagogue, like the ‘old bottles’ of Christ’s parable, cannot sustain the New. Hildegard closes the Sequence with a prayer that the people of Trier may never revert to the paganism in which Eucharius found them, but may always re-enact the redemptive sacrifice of Christ in the form of the Mass.

from notes by Christopher Page © 1982 https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2933_GBAJY8403905

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The first version of this song that I heard was on the highly innovative album of Hildegard’s songs arranged with “worldbeat music” by Richard Souther, now an acquaintance. The album is ‘Vision’ and here is that version of the same song:

I like both versions of the song a great deal, and you’ll find many more on Youtube.