Image credit: Open Gift Box with Love Present from Clipart.me, This piece is connected to this episode:  Year A, Ordinary 4, 2017 – Flip Flop. Something about the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 got my Music Smarts going, and I came up with this rhythmic chant based on the NRSV text. Here’s a pdf of the score for the chant, so you can have a go at it. Let me know what you think!

Something about the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 got my Music Smarts going, and I came up with this rhythmic chant based on the NRSV text. All rights reserved. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.

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We’re presenting this as a demo of how it might go. Matthew's Gospel was directed to an audience steeped in Hebrew tradition. We are not responsible for nor make any claims to any of their content. The Gospel of Matthew stressed that Jesus is the Christ or Messiah foretold in Hebrew Scripture, our Old Testament, and that the Kingdom … Leave a comment, or better yet, send me a recording of how you used it. Whippett Good Productions). So follow the links at your own risk. Jesus Christ gave us the Eight Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount near the Sea of Galilee, recorded for all posterity in the Gospel of Matthew, the first Book of the New Testament of the Bible. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Here’s a little extra for you this week. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS. If you have musically inclined folks, they can probably do a better job with it than I did. We’re presenting this as a demo of how it might go. There’s an intro in the recording and then the chant itself starts at about [01:28]. Beatitudes Chant Author: David A. Douthett Subject: Matthew 5:3-12 Keywords: beatitudes, matthew 5, sermon on the mount Created Date: 1/23/2017 6:47:42 PM Here Jesus stated several blessings, each beginning with the phrase, "Blessed are ..." (Similar declarations appear in Jesus' Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6:20-23.)

Each saying speaks of a blessing or "divine favor" that will be …

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