EWTN Jingle?

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There is a little EWTN “thingie” (as in, not a commercial, not a show – just filler) that has this song. Well, not a song, really … just one line, maybe in Latin. It’s maybe like 8 syllables. Anyone have any ideas of what it is?
 
I think it is Tantum Ergo Sacramentum, which is from one of the Hymns sung at benediction, the other is O Salutaris Hostiam.
 
It’s the opening four words to the “Salve, Regina”. The melody is a traditional one, and the words that go with EWTN’s musical signature are:

“Salve, Regina, Mater Misericordiae” or, in English, “Hail (holy) Queen, Mother of Mercy”.

Hope that helps.
 
I can’t quite make out what I’m hearing the words to be…

but I think they’re singing:

Pange lingua gloriosi

Whipping out my Latin-English dictionary from when I took a couple of years in Latin in high school… let’s see what that means…

You may have heard that “Latin is a difficult language to learn.” Yes, but that’s true only because like verbs, nouns are declined depending on their function in the sentence. There’s no separate words like “of” or “to” or “from,” so those are included at the end of the Latin word. And there’s not only masculine and feminine nouns, but there’s neuter nouns. And masculine and feminine and neuter verbs and adjectives, too. That each have their own declensions.

Anyway… you probably already know that if you’ve ever “gotten” to take a Latin class.

Each of these words that I’m offering for your consideration below are the root stem… (hang in there… :o )

Pange

the only word in my dictionary starting with “pang” is:

pango, -ere-, panxi, & pepigi

drive in, fasten, make, compose, agree, settle in

but there’s a word starting with “pan” which might be what is being sung. I vote for this one:

Pando

pando -ere -i pansum & passum

spread out, stretch, extend, open, disclose, explain

That leaves us with:

lingua

that’s easy…

lingua

lingua, -ae

tongue; speech, language; tongue of land

next one…

gloriosi

that’s easy, too

**glorios/us ** (an adjective)

famous, glorious; boastful

(this is as opposed to glori/or -ari -a (that’s the declinsion of the noun that means “boast, pride oneself”)

But I vote for this word –

glori/a - ae

glory, fame, ambition, pride, boasting
in pluperfect tense = “glorious deeds”

In English, and in the context used that I figure EWTN is using… this would mean something along the lines of:

Spreading the Good News in the tongue of the land

Ya think?
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I may have been “hearing” the wrong melody when I read the original post. If it’s “Pange lingua gloriosi”, then it’s the opening of this hymn written by Saint Thomas Aquinas:

"PANGE, lingua, gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
Quem in mundi pretium
Fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium. "

The English is:

"SING, my tongue, the Savior’s glory,
Of His flesh the mystery sing;
Of the Blood, all price exceeding,
Shed by our immortal King,
Destined, for the world’s redemption,
From a noble womb to spring. "

Hope that helps.
 
Okay… I’ve been watching EWTN (as usual) while I’m online…

Just as I hit the Submit Reply button on my prior post (having to do with my translation of what I perceived was being said in Latin)… that tune came up… with that graphic of the outline of a church and a transmittal dish… and instead of the Latin being sung by a woman,

it was a man stating (in a solid, proclaiming kind of voice)…

EWTN – Sharing the splendor of truth

I’ll go with that… I figured it would have to mean something along those lines… 😃 😛
 
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Servulus:
I may have been “hearing” the wrong melody when I read the original post. If it’s “Pange lingua gloriosi”, then it’s the opening of this hymn written by Saint Thomas Aquinas:

"PANGE, lingua, gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
Quem in mundi pretium
Fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium. "

The English is:

"SING, my tongue, the Savior’s glory,
Of His flesh the mystery sing;
Of the Blood, all price exceeding,
Shed by our immortal King,
Destined, for the world’s redemption,
From a noble womb to spring. "

Hope that helps.
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Thanks,Servulus!!

PANGE, lingua, gloriosi

Yup!! That’s IT! I THOUGHT that’s the words that I heard.

My Latin-English dictionary didn’t have “pange” in it. That being the root word “sing” makes the connection.

I thought EWTN was using that background tune for Tantum Ergo just because it was a good tune… not for the first line in the song in Latin.

Of course, the first line of Tantum Ergo goes like this…

Tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui…

I don’t remember singing the other verses in Latin. But I’ve been sitting here, reading that Latin that you gave in your post… and the Tantum Ergo melody certainly fits.

😃

Thanks!!
 
Servulus said:
"PANGE, lingua, gloriosi
The English is:

"SING, my tongue, the Savior’s glory,
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Of course, gloriosi would be “of glory”.

The word for glory in Latin is masculine.

It’s that “i” at the end of the noun “glorios/us” (which is “glory”) that is the “of”.

“Glorios” is the singular for the word “glory.” The “of” for the one glory is “i.” Making “gloriosi” the word for “of one glory.”

If it were more than one glory, the word would be “glorious.” And the “of” for more than one glory would be “ae”, making the word for “of more than one glory” would be “gloriae.”

Not to be confused with the “ae” that is used for nouns that are plural neuter. (Breaks your mind, don’t it? That’s why Latin can be tricky to learn when you first start out.)

So in non-poetic (i.e., don’t have to make the syllables line up in a particular rythm) language, “of the glory” is “gloriosi.”

it would be:

Sing, my tongue OF the Savior’s glory.

Thanks!! Solved!!
 
How about the lead in music/lyric to Journey Home with Marcus Grodi. That has always been a mystery to me, what those men are singing/mumbling. Anyone know?
 
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faith_ful1953us:
How about the lead in music/lyric to Journey Home with Marcus Grodi. That has always been a mystery to me, what those men are singing/mumbling. Anyone know?
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Ever seen a Cirque de Soleil show? T

cirquedusoleil.com/cirquedusoleil/default.htm

hey came once to my town. Absolutely amazing how the circus performers get you to a spot in your head/heart/psyche that is transcendent of location/space/time.

At least, that’s what it was like for me…

Anyhow… I asked one of the honchos/stagehands of the cirque at the break what language the singer was singing… it didn’t sound quite like any that I’d ever heard, but BOY was it ever beautiful!

The honcho/stagehand said that that was on purpose… because the cirque didn’t want anybody to be told what the words were that the words were not of ANY language whatsoever!

:o

The whole point here that I’m trying to make in my roundabout way is that it could be that the words/singing of the Journey Home theme song is MEANT to NOT be any words from any language, at all. That it’s just supposed to help you get to a semi-meditative/thoughtful state.

Or not.

😛

Whaddya think?
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Pange Lingua doesn’t use the tune of Tantum Ergo, Tantum Ergo is the last two verses of Pange Lingua: it’s the same song, and thus the same tune. 🙂
 
There are about 15 versions of the Tantum Ergo, the last two stanzas of the Pange Lingua. There is the Mozarabic, Ambrosian, and other versions, just as there various versions to the Ave Maria.

Maybe why you couldn’t find Pange in your latin dictionary is that it is in the vocative sense. It is a verb. Try another form.
 
Oh, I forgot the name was Franciscian Missionaries of the Eternal Word was singing “Pange Lingua Gloriosi” during the intro of the EWTN ID
 
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