My granddaughter Alyssa and my son’s Malamute, Cherokee, exchanging a Christmas greeting in 2002.
While for many the Christmas season begins on the Friday following Thanksgiving Day and ending on Christmas Day, for those of us who are Christian, the Christmas season begins on Christmas Eve and ends approximately two to three weeks later on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
As an ordained deacon in the Catholic Church for twenty-five years and as a professional musician for forty-four years, I have composed a lot of spiritual music, some of it vocal music for soloists and choirs, and some of it piano compositions.
My daughter, Beth, and her Santa Bear back in the 80’s.
Over the Christmas Season, December 24 through January 12, I will be posting the Christmas piano compositions on this blog. I also will be posting some spiritual poetry by famous poets with the music during this time.
I invite you to check out my site: www.deaconbob94.org during the Christmas seasons.
If you want to check out the music beforehand, you can find my music on many different streaming sites e.g. Spotify, Pandora, YouTube etc, or purchase the music on both Amazon and iTunes. The music will be under my name, Robert Charles Wagner. The piano collections in which the music can be found is Psalm Offerings Opus 3 (8 musical pieces), Psalm Offerings Opus 8 (6 musical piano pieces I wrote for my grandchildren), and Songs for the Refugee Christ at Christmas (10 musical pieces).
My grandson Owen and our Great Pyr puppy, Henri, Christmas 2002.
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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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