Thursday, May 15, 2014

Sweeney Todd, Valjean, and American Justice

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Yesterday, Sondheim and music lovers in the USA got the happy news that that NY Phil's Sweeney Todd will be broadcast "Live from ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Songstories 31: "Yours Today" from You Alone (1984, NALR) and "Change Our Hearts" (OCP, 2000)

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No one will ever accuse me of being a master of counterpoint, but one song that I wrote back in the 1980s which we use on occasion (and, I...
Monday, May 12, 2014

"He handed himself over" - Traditio

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When he was insulted, he returned no insult;
when he suffered, he did not threaten;
instead, he handed himself over to the one who judg...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Yeast, Shepherds, and Demons (A4E)

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Therefore, let us celebrate the feast,
  not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
  but with the unleavened bread of ...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

TBT - Mystagogy from the early 1990s

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I wrote this for the parish bulletin on the 2nd Sunday of Easter at St. Jerome's in Phoenix, no later than 1992 or 1993. It's sligh...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Songstories 30: "You in Our Day" (1987, Mystery)

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We have not seen you, but we love you. We have not seen you, but we believe you. We have not seen you, but we hope in you, For we ha...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

(TBT) Ninety Days - in 2000, when we dedicated our new church

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This Sunday, the Second Sunday of Easter, is the liturgical anniversary of the dedication of St. Anne Church in Barrington. Our first mass w...