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That song is a fond hymn to the contemplative life of the moonshiner, but Joan Baez delivers it in a manner that suggests that all good lives, respectable or not, are soon...
TELEPHONE wires across Rome hummed last week with the singing of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, the first notes of which Pope John will intone next week to open the Second Vatican Council. The sing-along was started by TIME Correspondent Robert B. Piser, who, attempting to determine the century in which that version of the hymn was composed, sang it to several sources on the phone-and they went on from there singing it to others. Piser finally got the correct echo: 9th century...
Veni Creator Spiritus. The council will open with a splendor to match its high goal. From his throne in the Hall of Benedictions of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, Pope John XXIII will intone the first notes of the 9th century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then the cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, abbots and superiors of religious orders, representing more than 90% of the church's hierarchic leaders-some auxiliary bishops and many Iron Curtain prelates will not attend-will begin their solemn procession across Bernini's piazza toward the great Basilica...
...without a word. All, furthermore, with the unmistakable intention to produce a pastoral masterpiece, a Japanese Man of Aran, a hymn to those simple and long-suffering sons of the soil who for thousands of years have dumbly borne the burden of civilization on their backs...
...Ravello, a beautiful city in one of the countries I love most-where people are so noble and gentle, and where my daughter and I have passed days of peace and happiness." There was a reception afterward, the band played a specially composed march, Jacqueliniana and the Marine Corps Hymn-the leader, for some reason, thought...