#349: Ah, Holy Jesus
Nov. 12th, 2019 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsWhen is this song typically sung?
Well, sometimes on Palm Sunday or Good Friday the Gospel will just be a long reading from the Passion story (skipping the sermon), and the long text is broken up by songs. So you might sing a few verses of this, then later a few more verses.
When else?
To make a very long story somewhat short, my church growing up has this creepy looking, fairly large, baby Jesus sculpture. The pastors dug it out some years ago to prank each other by "surprising" their colleagues with it in various places around church. Since my siblings and I, as preachers' kids, were there very often and had the run of the place, we obviously got in on this too, and over the years the pranking escalated. One year we left it on a high window ledge overlooking the courtyard and...didn't expect it to have crashed to the ground by the time it was discovered. So my mom and her colleagues, recognizing exactly what had gone down (uh, figuratively and literally in this case), made a lot of allusions to "Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas!" etc. over staff meetings.
Well, sometimes on Palm Sunday or Good Friday the Gospel will just be a long reading from the Passion story (skipping the sermon), and the long text is broken up by songs. So you might sing a few verses of this, then later a few more verses.
When else?
To make a very long story somewhat short, my church growing up has this creepy looking, fairly large, baby Jesus sculpture. The pastors dug it out some years ago to prank each other by "surprising" their colleagues with it in various places around church. Since my siblings and I, as preachers' kids, were there very often and had the run of the place, we obviously got in on this too, and over the years the pranking escalated. One year we left it on a high window ledge overlooking the courtyard and...didn't expect it to have crashed to the ground by the time it was discovered. So my mom and her colleagues, recognizing exactly what had gone down (uh, figuratively and literally in this case), made a lot of allusions to "Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas!" etc. over staff meetings.
