{"id":13590,"date":"2020-04-10T17:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:41:28","slug":"o-sacred-head-now-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13590","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;O Sacred Head, Now Wounded&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Sacred Head Now Wounded - Ao Naga Choir\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCsIrnMHvVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ao Naga <\/strong>are a tribal group in northeastern India. They were converted to Christianity in the late 1870s. This is the Ao Naga Choir with the Passion hymn, &#8220;O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;O Sacred Head&#8221; is a very old Latin hymn traditionally attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. However (I&#8217;m disappointed to learn) it&#8217;s now generally attributed to a 13th Century poet named Arnulf of Leuven (whose name suggests Norman ancestry).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arrangement by J. S. Bach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love this hymn. For Lutherans (and, of course, for many others) Christocentricity is the chief test of theology. If Jesus isn&#8217;t the Center, then it&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through all history, people have sought the secret of the universe. Christians declare that the secret is not an equation, not a formula, not a hidden talisman or precious stone or treasure, but a Person.  When you get to the end of all questions, when you draw back the final curtain of the universe, you find Personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And of course, we always knew this was right. All our great stories declared that the King must save his people; the Father must save his child; the Prince must save the princess. The answer is Someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A blessed Good Friday and Easter to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ao Naga are a tribal group in northeastern India. They were converted to Christianity in the late 1870s. This is the Ao Naga Choir with the Passion hymn, &#8220;O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.&#8221; &#8220;O Sacred Head&#8221; is a very old Latin hymn traditionally attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. However (I&#8217;m disappointed to learn) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;O Sacred Head, Now Wounded&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[213,224,1117,1455,2064],"class_list":["post-13590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion","tag-ao-naga-choir","tag-arnulf-of-leuven","tag-gregory-of-tours","tag-johan-sebastian-bach","tag-o-sacred-head-now-wounded"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}