Starting on HolyThursday (the beginning of the Triduum) I started a new collection of music based not only on the Paschal Mystery of Jesus, but as those baptized into Christ our own Paschal Mystery. We have just have to look around us, watch the news to find around us the incredible Paschal Mystery of which we all have a share. From the isolation in our homes, to the incredible people who are serving us in the hospitals, the clinics, the hardware stores, the gas stations, the grocery stores etc, we see people give of themselves in this worldwide Passion. As with Jesus’ Paschal Mystery, we know that through our sharing in Christ’s dying we will also share in his rising.
In this song, that leads off the collection, it is simply entitled “Prelude-Lord Have Mercy”. The image of Thomas, our favorite doubting apostle, comes to mind. We all have our doubting moments, but when Christ comes through for us, the only response we can muster, is “Lord, have mercy.”
Here is that song.
Prelude – Lord Have Mercy, Psalm Offering 1 Opus 13 (c) 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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