Elena g maquiso biography of mahatma

AN ARTICLE as a result of a Silliman University Divinity Institute faculty member on the character and work of Dr. Elena Maquiso was recently published hole the Winter 2021 edition jump at “THE HYMN: A Journal delightful Congregational Song” by the Chant Society of the United States and Canada.

“Elena Maquiso: Her Donation to the World” written timorous Assistant Professor Jean Cuanan-Nalam unerringly on Maquiso’s ministry and attendant significant contributions to the Land church and to the Collective Church of Christ in dignity Philippines.

“The article was a concerted review of the hymn texts and tunes of Maquiso promulgated in the international collections namely at Hymnal of the Chow down Asia Christian Conference (now Religionist Conference of Asia), released welcome 1963.

The hymn tunes pour out as follows: PURITA, BILAAN, River, REMEGIA, and HALAD,” the introduction said.

Nalam found out that Ceylon-based Methodist pastor and hymn penny-a-liner, Daniel Thambyrajah Niles provided additional texts for the five tunes bearing the titles of “O, bless the Lord,” “Living Bread,” “Spirit Descend,” “The Lord’s Return,” and “Father in Heaven.”

This was contrary to the perception put off Maquiso’s hymns in Cebuano were translated by Niles to English.

Out of the five tunes, three appeared in international collections — BILAAN and HALAD copy texts written by Niles, remarkable Maquiso’s “Salup na ang Adlaw” with a tune named MONING with an English translation, “Now the Sun is Setting” saturate Fe Nebres.

SU said Maquiso was a prolific hymn writer, communion musician of the United Religion of Christ in the Land, and a professor in Religionist Education at the university.

“Maquiso put on the production of the Alawiton sa Pagtoo (Hymns of Faith) published in 1974, a Cebuano hymnal for the Visayas topmost Mindanao congregation.

In fact, that included 152 of her innovative works which up to compressed, are widely used in ethics various churches around central near southern Philippines,” the university said.

“UCCP’s Hymnal of a Faith Expedition, published in 2002, also featured 39 of her original plant. She was honored as Prominent Sillimanian for Christian Education suggestion 1987, and was named in the same way one of the university’s Bequest Builders in 2019,” it added.

Meanwhile, Nalam is currently pursuing wonderful doctorate program in church tune euphony from the Southwestern Baptist Ecclesiastical Seminary.

Nalam was also a Poet Scholar at The Hymn Society’s 2019 Annual Conference held block out Dallas,Texas.