The Paschal Season begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Pentecost. During that time we enter into the Paschal Mystery of Christ. It is a time when our own life’s journey is keenly connected to that of Jesus’ Passion, Death, and Resurrection. As St Paul reminds us in his letter to the Romans, in baptism we have died with Christ, but we also will rise with Christ.
I have begun composing a new collection of music. The inspiration behind the music is the Paschal Mystery. On Easter Sunday I completed the first song. Today I present the second song, “Create In Me A Clean Heart.” It is inspired by this scripture by the prophet Ezechiel, “I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Ezechiel 36: 24-28)
The Paschal Mystery in our lives has a way of transforming our lives, as is expressed so well in this passage from the prophet Ezechiel.
Here is the music I just finished composing today. I dedicate it to my good friends, Fr. Larry and Diane Blake.
