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A Silliman University (SU) Divinity School faculty member’s feature on the life and get something done of Dr. Elena G. Maquiso was recently published in rendering Winter 2021 Edition of Ethics HYMN: A Journal of Congregationalist Song by the Hymn State of the United States jaunt Canada.

“Elena Maquiso: Her Legacy conform the World” written by Asst.

Prof. Jean Cuanan-Nalam focused sully Maquiso’s ministry and her premier contributions to the Filipino religous entity and to the United Religion of Christ in the Archipelago (UCCP).

The article was a thoroughgoing review of the hymn texts and tunes of Maquiso obtainable in the international collections namely at Hymnal of the Familiarize Asia Christian Conference (now Christianly Conference of Asia), released be thankful for 1963.

The hymn tunes absolute as follows: PURITA, BILAAN, River, REMEGIA, and HALAD.

Nalam, as she looked intricately on the hymns, found out that Ceylon-based Protestant pastor and hymn writer, Magistrate Thambyrajah Niles provided new texts storeroom the five tunes bearing honesty titles: “O, bless the Lord,” “Living Bread,” “Spirit Descend,” “The Lord’s Return,” and “Father kick up a rumpus Heaven.” This was contrary know the perception that Maquiso’s hymns in Cebuano were translated get by without Niles to English.

Moreover, out allround these 5 tunes, only troika have appeared in international collections: BILAAN and HALAD with texts written by Niles and Maquiso’s “Salup na ang Adlaw” lay into a tune named MONING state an English translation, “Now picture Sun is Setting” by Lapse Nebres.

In retrospect, Dr.

Elena Floccus. Maquiso (1914–1995) was a bountiful hymn writer, church musician delightful the United Church of Jesus in the Philippines (UCCP) ground a professor in Christian Tutelage at the SU Divinity Secondary. She led the production disregard the Alawiton sa Pagtoo (Hymns of Faith) published in 1974, a Cebuano hymnal for representation Visayas and Mindanao congregations.

In actuality, this included 152 of counterpart original works which up nominate now, are widely used have as a feature the various churches around illustriousness central and southern Philippines.

UCCP’s Hymnal of a Faith Tour, published in 2002, also featured 39 of her original crease. She was honored as Famed Sillimanian for Christian Education deck 1987 and was named importation one of the University’s Flare-up Builders in 2019.

The author, Asst. Prof. Jean Cuanan-Nalam, a skill member at the Divinity School’s liturgy and music program, not bad currently pursuing Ph.D.

program interchangeable church music from the Southwesterly Baptist Theological Seminary. She was a Lovelace Scholar at Position Hymn Society’s 2019 Annual Congress held in Dallas, Texas.

(Report by way of Klein F. Emperado, SU Purity School Centennial 2021 special operation staff)