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Tag Archives: Music
Sunday Take Five ~ A Music Break for Body & Soul
Dearly Beloved ~ Yoko Shimomura
The RU Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Jon Kimura Parker, Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vKUd-j8MnIk
Dvorak (arr. Fischer) - "Goin' Home" for Cello and Piano
Nicholas Read more [...]
The World Will Be Saved By ——
There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]
A New Serenity Prayer
Hump Wednesday — I saw the Roches in Princeton in the 1980's and loved them—their harmonies, humor, and sass. Terre Roche teams up with Fr. James Martin SJ for a NEW SERENITY PRAYER. Sometimes what is lacking in prayer is a wee bit of levity. We Read more [...]
We Are Tethered / Spirit is Free / What Spirit Is / We Can Be
One of the best pieces of advice that I can give to preachers is to preach as if YOU were sitting in the front pew. That simple counsel is meant to prevent preaching from getting preachy. It reminds the homilist that he or she is not up there preaching Read more [...]
Four for St. Francis ~ October 4th
Today is the Feast of the little poor man from Assisi who was a counter-sign in numerous ways to the dominant culture of his day and no less so for our time.
Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth,
who feeds us and rules us,
and produces Read more [...]
In Memoriam
The photo above with me and the dog (the dog is on the right) is from my 1977 post-college hitchhiking trip around the US of A to the tune of 17,000 miles with JT as the soundtrack—"Take to the highway won't you lend me your name. . . " Way more Read more [...]
What’s Going On?
There is something deeply disturbing when the songs from our youth—like Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON—that articulate or allude to the exasperation, agony, unnecessary suffering, and righteous anger of the time in response to the Vietnam War, the Read more [...]
Musica Memento 11 ~ After Bob Dylan (and Jesus)
In light of the fact that it is Robert Zimmerman's 81st birthday in a few days (May 24), I thought I'd post one of my favorite covers of one of my favorite Dylan songs—"Girl from the North Country". Oscar Wilde recycled a proverb dating back to the Read more [...]
A Song for Troublesome Times featuring JT
TODAY is a special day!!! It is James Taylor's birthday. JT has been the soundtrack for most of my life. Below is one of my favorite songs titled "Grace" from Jonathan Elias' PRAYER CYCLE that features James Taylor.
In these troublesome days when the Read more [...]