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Kat-
I heard this often when I was a kid, on morning AM radio. My mother also used to sing it to me at bedtime; “Count your blessings” was one of her go-to phrases.
I sent you an indigenous take on “A Huron Carol” back in christmastide; you said you hadn’t know of the Jesuits’ use of song in their conversion efforts.
Here’s another instance : from Mali Obomsawin’s album “Sweet Tooth” (Out Of Your Head Records), released October 28 2023.
Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki First Nation; the third track here is “Wawasint8da,” a Catholic hymn depicting Jesus’ descent into Hell to save non-Catholic souls, translated from Latin into the Abenaki language by early French Jesuit priests who lived among them.
Enjoy?! https://mali-obomsawin.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-tooth
January 12, 2023 at 4:15 pm
Kat-
I heard this often when I was a kid, on morning AM radio. My mother also used to sing it to me at bedtime; “Count your blessings” was one of her go-to phrases.
I sent you an indigenous take on “A Huron Carol” back in christmastide; you said you hadn’t know of the Jesuits’ use of song in their conversion efforts.
Here’s another instance : from Mali Obomsawin’s album “Sweet Tooth” (Out Of Your Head Records), released October 28 2023.
Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki First Nation; the third track here is “Wawasint8da,” a Catholic hymn depicting Jesus’ descent into Hell to save non-Catholic souls, translated from Latin into the Abenaki language by early French Jesuit priests who lived among them.
Enjoy?!
https://mali-obomsawin.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-tooth