Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Song Of Rejoicing

First off, an apology for the lack of updates over the past couple weeks.  Besides a busier than normal work schedule of late, I also recently traveled to Mobile, AL to attend my brother’s ordination to the priesthood.  What a joyous and beautiful celebration, but as you might imagine there wasn’t much time for blogging.  (On a side note, Fr. Stephen Vrazel maintains his own blog and if you’re curious I encourage you to give it a look – there’s always interesting spiritual food for thought to be found there.)
In any event though, Michael and I have not been completely idle during our online absence.  In fact, we’ve been very busy learning the ropes on a new digital recorder that will enable us to create demo recordings of some of our other songs to be shared here.
Today, we’re uploading our first of these demo recordings, Song Of Rejoicing.  This song may be familiar to IHM parishioners since we have used it a number of times over the past year and half.  It was written primarily for use on Gaudete Sunday in Advent and Laetare Sunday in Lent, and the IHM community has picked this song up quite well.  Click the Play button on the blue Streampad player bar across the bottom of your browser window to give it a listen and feel free to let us know what you think via email or the comments section.  If you’d like to read more about the inspiration behind this song, click the Read More link below.  Lyrics can also be found after the jump.  Thanks for stopping by.