Johnny Cash, “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”
“Sinners make the best saints” – yep
The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people the Anglican Church will do.
Category Archives: Music
Patty Loveless
Ralph Stanley and Patty Loveless singing “Pretty Polly”
Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless in “Daniel Prayed”
And You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Now listen to Darrell Scott
and also Brad Paisley (also has the lyrics)
Looking for a needle in a haystack….
Finding a good woman is also like looking for a needle in a haystack!
Not Pretty Enough
Not Pretty Enough, Kasey Chambers
If you work around the elderly long enough, you stop asking this, because almost all of them are beautiful, not just “pretty enough.” The good Lord loves us all, especially the most broken among us. We are all pretty enough for Christ.
Also see The Butterfly Circus.
The Church is the hospital of broken souls, those whom psychiatry or psychoanalysis couldn’t help. It offers what the secular world has forgotten: forgiveness, redemption.
Attende Domine
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
Ad te Rex summe, omnium Redemptor,
oculos nostros sublevamus flentes:
exaudi, Christe, supplicantum preces.
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
Dextera Patris, lapis angularis,
via salutis, ianua caelestis,
ablue nostri maculas delicti.
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
Rogamus, Deus, tuam maiestatem:
auribus sacris gemitus exaudi:
crimina nostra placidus indulge.
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
Tibi fatemur crimina admissa:
contrito corde pandimus occulta:
tua, Redemptor, pietas ignoscat.
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
Innocens captus, nec repugnans ductus;
testibus falsis pro impiis damnatus
quos redemisti, tu conserva, Christe.
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus tibi.
The Singing Nurse
Hallelujah Christmas
Hallelujah Christmas, by Cloverton
I’ve heard about this baby boy
Who’s come to earth to bring us joy
And I just want to sing this song to you
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
With every breath I’m singing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A couple came to Bethlehem
Expecting child, they searched the inn
To find a place for You were coming soon
There was no room for them to stay
So in a manger filled with hay
God’s only Son was born, oh Hallelujah
Hallelujah
The shepherds left their flocks by night
To see this baby wrapped in light
A host of angels led them all to You
It was just as the angels said
You’ll find Him in a manger bed
Immanuel and Savior, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A star shown bright up in the east
To Bethlehem, the wisemen three
Came many miles and journeyed long for You
And to the place at which You were
Their frankincense and gold and myrrh
They gave to You and cried out Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I know You came to rescue me
This baby boy would grow to be
A man and one day die for me and you
My sins would drive the nails in You
That rugged cross was my cross, too
Still every breath You drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Lean on Me
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Lean on Me, Bill Withers
Gaudete Sunday
“Comfort, Comfort, O My People”
“Comfort, Comfort, O My People” by The Ignatian Schola
“Comfort, comfort O my people;
speak of peace!” Now says our God.
“Comfort those who sit in darkness
mourning ‘neath their sorrow’s load.
Seek unto Jerusalem
of the peace that waits for them!
Tell of all the sins I cover,
and that warfare now is over.”
Hark the voice of one who’s crying
in the desert far and near,
bidding all to full repentance,
since the Kingdom now is here.
O, that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way.
Let the valleys rise to meet Him
and the hills bow down to greet Him.
O make straight what long was crooked,
make the rougher places plain.
Let your hearts be true and humble,
as befits His holy reign.
For the glory of the Lord
now o’er earth is shed abroad,
and the flesh shall see the token
that His word is never broken.