The album cover of my new music song cycle, “A Paschal Journey” Psalm Offerings Opus 13. The picture of my granddaughter, Sydney, grasping her mom’s finger, was taken by my daughter-in-law, Olivia. It is one of those pictures that continues to hold great significance for me.
I found it appropriate that I completed composing the last song of my song cycle, “A Paschal Journey” on the eve of Pentecost, the last feast of the Paschal Season.
This new song cycle is scheduled to be available on iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, CD Baby, YouTube and other streaming services around June 13th. Hopefully, I will have CDs of the music by the third or fourth week of June.
There are thirteen songs, six of which I have posted here on my blog, thus far, in this song cycle. All of them songs that can be used for meditation, prayer, or just for listening. The songs are: 1) Prelude- Lord Have Mercy; 2) Create In Me A New Heart; 3) On Knees Washing Feet; 4) Love One Another; 5) At Prayer In The Kidron Valley; 6) In the Crucible; 7) Pieta; 8) Resurrection; 9) Mystagogy – With Magdalene In The Garden; 10) Mystagogy – On The Shore Of Lake Tiberias; 11) Mystagogy – Standing On Mount Oliviet; 12) Come Holy Spirit; and, 13) Jesus Through Me.
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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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