Dear parishioners,
Today, we offer a wonderful musical offering from fellow parishioner and choir member, Peter Weber. We also offer a daily meditation from Forward Day by Day.
Please make certain you check your Daily Message email tomorrow as there will be important information and messaging from Father Rick, as well as the NEW login for virtual coffee hour (we will start to use our St. Edward’s Zoom account), information about our Sunday service, and weekly updates/messages from Bishop Scanlan. Important news you will want to know as we approach the weekend!
Thank you.
Michelle
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For this season, which has lasted more than 40 days, I commend The Beatitudes music by Liszt Ferenc, otherwise called Franz Liszt.
Beatitudes, Christus Oratorium, movement No. 6, Baritone, Chorus and Organ
by Liszt Ferenc, 1866
(English translation from the Latin)
Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek:
for they shall possess the land.
Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after justice:
for they hall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart:
for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution
for justice’ sake:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(Matt. 5, 3-10)
There is a recording online, with Miklos Forrai, Conductor, and the Hungarian State Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV2hlE7S-GI
Has anyone else heard or sung or played this superb music?
Peace,
Peter
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THURSDAY, May 7
Colossians 3:16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
From the Archives: April 1, 1946
“Serve” is one of Christ’s own words. And where shall his servants serve? Right where he is, at home, those nearest him, his neighbor.
Today we look upon a most woeful world. It seems burst like a fragmentation bomb. Is there any earthly hope of these warring factions coming together? Not much. But there is a heavenly chance.
Let us stand by statesmen, arbitrators, and conciliators, as they seek to bring warring factions together. They work like frantic seamen pumping out a leaky ship who trust the ship will hold together.
What can save us is God’s mercy and the Divine impulse that knits millions of little families together in the service of mutual love—and that other family, the Church.
MOVING FORWARD: Reach out to someone from whom you’ve been estranged.
Read the contemporary reflection here.
PRAY for the Dioceses of Kitigi and Kwara (both in Nigeria)
Ps 50 * [59,60] or 114, 115 | Exodus 34:1-17 | 1 Thessalonians 2:12-20 | Matthew 5:21-26