In 2012, I composed settings of two psalms, Psalm 92 and Psalm 8. I composed these for the praying of morning prayer at a Franciscan Day of Reflection. Over the past two weeks, I have re-composed these two hymns as piano pieces.
The first song is entitled “We Do Well To Your Name”.
We Do Well To Sing Your Name (For Ruth Weinandt) Psalm Offering 4 Opus 12 (c) 2020, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
I have dedicated this musical prayer for Ruth Weinandt who is a colleague in pastoral ministry at the New Prague Catholic Community. She is a wonderful person of compassion and care.
This second song is entitled “From The Lips of Babes and Children”. It is a setting of Psalm 8, re-composed for solo piano.
From the Lips of Babes and Children (For Mary HIggins) Psalm Offering 5 Opus 12 (c) 2020, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
I have dedicated this musical prayer for my Franciscan colleague, Mary Higgins, whose ministry stretches way beyond the parish boundaries of the New Prague Area Catholic Community.
We are immersed in a time of great stress and uncertainty. May praying Psalm 92 and Psalm 8 bring a little break from worry, and may listening to this music assist you in relaxing in the loving embrace of God.
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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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