{"id":3166,"date":"2016-09-09T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2016-09-09T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:51:47","slug":"songs-we-sing-%e2%80%94-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/songs-we-sing-%e2%80%94-amen\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Sing \u2014 &#8220;Amen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Song Leaders!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amen&#8221; is a classic from the African-American gospel tradition.<\/p>\n<p>We use it as a post-cleanup regathering song, to celebrate the end of cleanup and take collections for Saint Lydia&#8217;s and the Trinity Lower East Side soup kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The song has one word \u2014 <em>amen \u2014 <\/em>which is sung over and over and over. \u00a0But you can swap in other words, including <em>freedom <\/em>or whatever the spirit leads you to add.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WMZcUZQ8C78\">version by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions<\/a>. \u00a0We perform it a little more uptempo and will leave out the Christmasy lines about the baby Jesus lying in a manger. \u00a0In lieu of those, you can sing\u00a0<em>hallelujah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And handclaps (on two and four, please) always help.<\/p>\n<p>Happy <em>Amen<\/em>ing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Song Leaders! &#8220;Amen&#8221; is a classic from the African-American gospel tradition. We use it as a post-cleanup regathering song, to celebrate the end of cleanup and take collections for Saint Lydia&#8217;s and the Trinity Lower East Side soup kitchen. The song has one word \u2014 amen \u2014 which is sung over and over and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}