Easter - Easter Song Everybody Ought to Know Father AbrahamVideo From East to West, from Shore to Shore From Heaven High I Come to You Get On Board Little Children Go Tell it on the MountainVideo God from on High has Heard God is Good and God is Great ...
As for the abundance of deep feeling, vulnerability, open-heartedness, and the ecstatic willingness to be swept away, we need more, not less of that in the Christian life. Those kids are singing and praying and testifying as if their lives depend on it; as if God matters more than anythi...
As for the abundance of deep feeling, vulnerability, open-heartedness, and the ecstatic willingness to be swept away, we need more, not less of that in the Christian life. Those kids are singing and praying and testifying as if their lives depend on it; as if God matters more than anythi...
A few years ago there was a grave concern in that the charismatics were “feminising” the Church. There was a genre of contemporary song jokingly described as “Jesus is my girlfriend”. I’m not a fan of songs so vacuous that the word “Jesus” can be switched for the word “baby...
A few weeks after Dom Christian wrote these lines about giving birth to God, the monks were taken hostage just before Holy Week. They would be martyred during Eastertide. If they had fled the country when they had the chance, they could have preserved their lives. But the brothers would ...
feeling gratitude for the gift of saints who show us how. But I did not linger. What the angel said on Easter morning applies to every tomb:He is not here. Cuthbert still walks the paths of memory which I traced in homage. And he also goes before us—into the human future, deeper ...
But the poet’s surprisingly light tone here is a form not of denial, but of faith. For the believer, Time’s fatal blade brings not annihilation, but new growth: “By thy cutting he grows better.” We’re not sure what Time makes of this argument, but when the poet begins a more...
”[ii]The sixteen short lines, divided into four quatrains, overflow—almost miraculously—with diverse images, references and meanings. For example, “The bridal [wedding] of the earth and sky“ invokes the Easter Vigil’sExultet:How blessed is this night, when earth and heaven are joined. ...
”[ii]The sixteen short lines, divided into four quatrains, overflow—almost miraculously—with diverse images, references and meanings. For example, “The bridal [wedding] of the earth and sky“ invokes the Easter Vigil’sExultet:How blessed is this night, when earth and heaven are joined. ...