Saturday Song

Saturday Song – Advent Edition

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

A different kind of version of an Advent classic… enter the season of quiet, watchful, waiting in peace.

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Posted on November 24, 2012 by Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

This Sunday is the last of our liturgical year, Christ the King. Next Sunday we begin a new year with Advent.

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Saturday Song

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

On Sunday we will hear the Shema Yisra’el in First Reading from Deuteronomy, and then again in the Gospel from Mark, and seen above. This prayer is at the heart of Judaism and is recited twice a day. If we consider this prayer in the context of Jesus’ life, we know that it was essential to his life and ministry – and should be to ours. At the PrayTell blog, theologian Kimberly Hope Belcher wrote a little bit about the use of this Scripture in the Lectionary, and she got me thinking about it.

Here is an interesting composition of the ancient words of the prayer, set to a more contemporary piece of music. It is humbling (to me anyway) to think that we must be reminded regularly to know the we are to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength,” and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

As with most things, easier said than done. Please let us all remember, pray for, and love with action, all of our brothers and sisters, our neighbors so to speak, whose lives are in turmoil in the wake of the storm. We will be taking up a second collection for storm victims in the next week or so, details will follow.

OK, I have never had this happen, but I can’t embed this video – so please take the extra click over to YouTube if you would like to see it. Blessings and peace, prayers for all.

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Saturday Song

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Fran Rossi Szpylczyn

I think that I have used this before, but with Sunday’s coming Gospel about a blind man always makes me think of this song. Last year, Jesse Manibusan was as St. Edward’s and he sang this, it was so beautiful.