Dear Fellow Parishioners,
Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope your day is filled with love and joy!
This week’s music selections for Mass contain nothing new, but Bread of Life by Bobby Fisher is not as well known as the other hymns of that name so I’m including a link for it here: https://youtu.be/yjc55SLWz9M. The words for this and all other songs this week can be found in this attachment.
The first song I’m going to share today is a beautiful musical setting of the psalm for this Sunday, ‘I Turn to You, Lord, in Time of Trouble’ by Francesca LaRosa. https://youtu.be/3BY8HKyN9rQ
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought I would share a song based on 1 Corinthians often sung for weddings: ‘Charity’ sung here by Kenn Gulliksen. https://youtu.be/sNxhuNanlJQ
The next is a song suggested for mass this week that can be found in Breaking Bread called ‘Holy Darkness’. You can see Dan Schutte, the popular Catholic composer of this song and many others, playing guitar in this video. He also sings one of the verses. https://youtu.be/T9Zel_7bDes
The First Reading and the Gospel, are both about lepers, so that will be the theme for the other offerings this week.
‘The Leper’ by Terry Clark https://youtu.be/9–unR3iTX8
‘Leper Song’ by a group called October Wedding https://youtu.be/G0jZOcIcntE
‘Lepers’ by Joshua Levanthal https://youtu.be/-AQA_QSROcM
The last one is a toe-tapper based on an Old Testament story. ‘Naaman the Leper’ sung by Shelby Williams https://youtu.be/MIN7mU2FK08
Enjoy your Valentine’s Day! God bless you and keep you safe.
Janis Cantú