A Song Prayer For Our Nation Torn By Racial Prejudice
Back in 2017 following the murder of Philando Castille, I composed a song cycle of prayer songs for our Broken World. Among the nine songs for victims killed by violence, victims of sexual abuse, Immigrants and refugees, victims of big business, victims of hunger, victims of religious prejudice, those denied health care, is a song of victims of racial prejudice.
As our nation, once more, is torn apart by the cruelty of human against human, we must remember that there is only ONE race, the Human Race.
I invite you to listen to this song as a prayer for those who have suffered from racial prejudice, all those who have lost property and livelihood during this heightened time of violence and pray that God may heal our brokenness and raise our awareness that we are all children of God equally loved by the God who created us.
For Victims of Racial Prejudice and Violence, Psalm Offering 8 Opus 7 (c) 2017 by 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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