I completed composing this musical prayer this morning. I think we are all feeling a sense of fear and uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. So many have been their source of income. So many have gotten sick. And most tragically, so many have lost their lives. So, if you are feeling weighed down by all this, I invite you to listen to this song.
One form of music that is able to express the losses in life so succinctly is the Blues. I composed this song as a Blues. I can safely say that I have been channeling my George Gershwin in this song. I call it “The Book of Job Blues”.
The Book of Job Blues, Psalm Offering 6 Opus 12 (c) 2020, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
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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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