{"id":3226,"date":"2016-09-30T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:45:00","slug":"songs-we-sing-%e2%80%94-amen-siakudumisa-amen-we-praise-your-name-o-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/songs-we-sing-%e2%80%94-amen-siakudumisa-amen-we-praise-your-name-o-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Sing \u2014 &#8220;Amen Siakudumisa&#8221; \/ &#8220;Amen, We Praise Your Name, O God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Song Leaders!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amen Siakudumisa&#8221; is a hymn by Stephen Cuthbert Molefe, a South African composer and choir master. \u00a0The original words are in Xhosa, and we sing it in both Xhosa and English.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Xhosa lyrics:<\/span><br \/>\nAmen siyakudumisa (masithi)<br \/>\nAmen siyakudumisa (masithi)<br \/>\nAmen, Bawo; Amen Bawo;<br \/>\nAmen siyakudumisa. (masithi)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">English lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Amen, we praise your name, O God. (sing &#8216;amen&#8217;)<br \/>\nAmen, we praise your name, O God.\u00a0(sing &#8216;amen&#8217;)<br \/>\nAmen, amen<br \/>\nAmen, amen<br \/>\nAmen, we praise your name, O God.\u00a0(sing &#8216;amen&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recording so you can learn the melody and get a sense of the tempo at which we&#8217;ll sing it. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Amen-Siyakudumisa.mp3\">Amen Siyakudumisa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great song, and a great way to honor the musical influence and freedom struggle of the South African church.<\/p>\n<p>Sing Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Song Leaders! &#8220;Amen Siakudumisa&#8221; is a hymn by Stephen Cuthbert Molefe, a South African composer and choir master. \u00a0The original words are in Xhosa, and we sing it in both Xhosa and English. Xhosa lyrics: Amen siyakudumisa (masithi) Amen siyakudumisa (masithi) Amen, Bawo; Amen Bawo; Amen siyakudumisa. (masithi) English lyrics: Amen, we praise your [&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\/3226"}],"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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}