Here I am at the old St. Hubert, directing music from the piano.
In the Catholic Tradition, Christmas Day is more than just the 25th of December. Time is suspended, and 8 days become 1 day. In other words, the Solemnity of Christmas begins on the 25th of December and ends on January 1st. We call this the “octave of Christmas.” In music, an octave is an interval of 8 pitches, and, when one thinks of the overtones contained within one pitch, the idea of 8 days equaling 1 day is not so farfetched. The following music over these 8 days are my musical celebration of the Octave of Christmas, composed by me in 1991 as Christmas gifts for the significant people in my life at that time.
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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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