Psalm Offering 1 Opus 1 was written for Dr. Gene Scapanski. Gene was the director of the Masters In Pastoral Studies graduate program in the St. Paul School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas. Gene encouraged me to pursue a Masters Degree in Pastoral Studies. I am so grateful to him that I did. He was able to see in me something I was not able to see.
Gene is pictured on the left. The picture on the right is of the graduate students and faculty in the MAPS program.
The composer, Paul Hindemith, was the inspiration behind this composition. It is in two part form, AB, AB, closing with a restatement of the A melody.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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