{"id":985,"date":"2009-01-18T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2009\/01\/what-did-you-see-and-hear-6.html"},"modified":"2009-01-18T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T20:38:42","slug":"what-did-you-see-and-hear-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2009\/01\/what-did-you-see-and-hear-6.html","title":{"rendered":"What did you see and hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m running this because in conversation on another site, the musical playbook for this weekend became clear:
\nOpening: “All are Welcome Here”
\nOffertory: “Here I am, Lord”
\nClosing: “Sing a New Church”
\nOthers reported “The Summons,” which I confess I’ve never heard.
\nAnd what about you?
\nBoy, that music was terrible. The sad part to me is that the execution was good – well done. Strong voices, good harmonizing and so on. But the Mass part setting was some awful, sing-songy arrangement I had never heard that struck me as sentimental and childish. Immature.\u00a0 And as for the hymns, well. I don’t mind “Here I am Lord,” but the others are just so terrible and beside the point and even a bit against <\/em>the point in their Celebration of Us – it really is just too bad that the energy can’t go into more substantive pieces, both musically and lyrically.
\nNow, I hasten to say that apart from those matters, Mass today resonated, even as I fought distractions – that of the inner critic, and that of the complaining 4-year old as well.\u00a0 The woman who read the 1 Samuel passage was an older woman whose Alabama accent was strong, but not twangy,\u00a0 expressive but not overly so.\u00a0 She told the story – for that is what she was doing – without being overdramatic or didactic. Very effective. The homily, by a visiting priest, was brief and pointed, inviting us to hear Jesus’ invitation to “come and see.” He also alluded to reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail<\/em> as a seminarian and the impact it had on him.
\nMy son, in Rome, said he heard one of the best homilies he’s ever heard at Santa Susanna Saturday night, preached by a transitional deacon, he said. So, Deacon, if you’re out there…good job!
\nI do love this Gospel. <\/a>The simplicity of it: What are you looking for….Come and see.<\/em>
\nDarkness, at times, can seem comfortable. I can hide, and spend my life asleep. Yet we are not called to darkness, but to light.<\/span><\/em> <\/span>
\nPope Benedict, Easter Vigil Homily, 2008
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