Sing and say every day

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Every day sing and say , version Würzburg 1630 with the melody sung to this day

Sing and say every day is a Catholic spiritual song for the veneration of Mary . It goes back to the Latin hymn Omni die dic Mariae , which today is generally attributed to the Benedictine Bernhard von Morlas (12th century), but in the Baroque period as a work of St. Casimir (1458–1484) was considered. The Praise to God contains a four-stanza version (No. 526).

Form and content

The form and language of the Marian hymn, which are undoubtedly closely related to works by him, speak for the authorship of Bernhard von Morla. The stanzas follow an original scheme that appears "lively" due to the rapid rhyme sequence:

x – x–
x – x–
x – x – x – x
x – x–
x – x–
x – x – x – x

The content of the poetry is the call to praise the Virgin and Mother of God Mary and her role in the work of redemption . The German text in use today consists of stanzas 1, 2, 4 and 6 of the 16-stanza version by Heinrich Bone (1847), which in turn is based on baroque models.

Text in use today

Sing and say
praise to the Queen of Heaven every day ;
Honor your graces,
your deeds , O Christ, with heart and mind.

Choice is her nature,
mother she and a virgin.
Praise them blessed, blissful;
she is great and wonderful.

Gotterkoren gave birth
to the Savior of all the world,
who
gives light and life and keeps heaven open. Always be ready

with all your
heart to increase your honors .
Benedeie them and rejoice in
their glory.

melody

Sing and say every day (Omni die dic Mariae), GL 526

The melody can first be found in an Ingolstadt hymn book from 1613 and has since been associated with all German text versions. It adapts to the form of the poem in rhythm and style.

Omni die and St. Casimir

St. Casimir with the beginning of the hymn, 18th century

St. Casimir, a Polish prince, died in 1484 at the age of 25, with a reputation for complete piety and chastity. His canonization took place in several steps and was celebrated with great festivities in 1604, at the height of the Counter-Reformation , especially in Poland-Lithuania . At this time, the legend spread that the body of the saint was found unworn when the tomb was opened and that his right temple rested on a piece of paper with the Omni die dic Mariae , which he himself wrote . Since then the song has been called the Hymn of St. Casimir and the first words of the text became one of the attributes of the saint in ecclesiastical art.

Dreves wrote about the legend in 1909:

“Can you find the second hymn of the Mariale: Omni die dic Mariae even today here and there to St. Attributed to Casimir of Poland, this only proves that a legend haunts the longer and the more tenaciously it is held, the more absurd it is. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Every day sing and say  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so also in God's praise of 2013
  2. ↑ a b Dreves p. 218
  3. ↑ Latin text
  4. ^ Complete text by Heinrich Bones
  5. ↑ edited General Encyclopedia of Science and Arts in alphabetical order of mentioned writers and edited by JS Ersch and JG Gruber , Volume 14, Leipzig 1837, pp 139-140