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Posted on April 5, 2020August 15, 2019

Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest

Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh?  Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…

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Posted on September 6, 2019

“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars”, Melody S Gee

Yesterday’s Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets was “The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” About the Poem, Melody S Gee comments: “This is part of The Convert, a series…

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Posted on May 31, 2019

Ascension Day: a poem

Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, so this is late. I guess it is still May 30th in California and points West (up to the International Date Line) though:…

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Posted on April 19, 2019February 14, 2019

Music for #GoodFriday: “Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix”, César Franck

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Posted on April 14, 2019

A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton

I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…

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Posted on December 29, 2018December 7, 2018

For Christmas – Tonos play ‘Rey, a quien reyes adoran’

Here is the duo Tonos – singer Roisin O’Grady and guitarist/lutenist Eamon Sweeney (no relation) playing the Spanish song ‘Rey, a quien reyes adoran’ – “King Who Kings Adore”

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Posted on December 24, 2018December 12, 2018

For Christmas Eve: Mitch Miller & the Gang, We Three Kings of Orient Are

Mitch Miller supposedly incarnated the worst of 1950s popular music, nearly destroying Sinatra with novelty numbers and generally inflicting cliché upon cliché that would be blown away in the 1960s.…

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Posted on November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

An Italian poem of World War I – “Last Rite”, Clemente Rebora

The current TLS has a piece by NS Thompson on Italian poets of the First World War, along with translations by Thompson of some of their works. Futurism, which glorified…

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