Misa Campesina Nicaragüense

The Misa Campesina Nicaragüense ("Nicaraguan Peasants' Mass") is Spanish-language Mass with words and music by Carlos Mejía Godoy, incorporating a liberation theology and Nicaraguan folk music. It was composed in the artistic community of Solentiname and first performed in 1975, its liturgical use being prohibited within a few days. It has been praised by Dorothee Sölle for fully overcoming the "theological danger of docetism".[1]

Mejía Godoy was motivated to produce a new Mass by the promulgation of the Sacrosanctum Concilium, which permitted popular and regional music in the liturgy, by the Second Vatican Council. Initially he invited the ideas of other artists but in the end composed the piece himself. Though attended the Colegio Salesiano and aspiring to the priesthood, Mejía Godoy's main influences were Marxist: the recent deaths of warrior Che Guevara and poet José Leonel Rugama, the creation of an "Iglesia Popular" (popular church) of youths agitating against the traditional hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.[2]

Excerpt in translation
I believe in you, comrade,
Christ man, Christ worker,
victor over death.
With your great sacrifice
you made new people
for liberation.
You are risen
in every arm outstretched
to defend the people
against the exploitation of rulers;
you are alive and present in the hut,
in the factory, in the school.
I believe in your ceaseless struggle,
I believe in your resurrection.[1]

Notes
  1. Dorothee Sölle (1990), Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology (London: SCM Press, ISBN 0-334-02476-5), 114–5.
  2. Zayda García Zeledón, "La Misa campesina de Carlos," El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua: December 2001).
  3. T.M. Scruggs: Las Misas Nicaragüenses: Popular, Campesina, y del pueblo. ISTMO 2008 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. T.M. Scruggs (1999). "'Let's Enjoy as Nicaraguans': The Use of Music in the Construction of a Nicaraguan National Consciousness". Ethnomusicology. 43 (2): 297–321. JSTOR 852736.
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