by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Mar 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Church musicians are not usually celebrities. It was a special music store (back in the days of music stores…remember them?) that carried very much in the way of liturgical music. And there were certainly no posters of the St. Louis Jesuits in the back of the...
by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Feb 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As every Dylan fan knows, or will fully pretend to know if they didn’t already and you call them out on it, there would have been no Dylan without Woody Guthrie. In fact, the better of the two original songs that Dylan wrote for his eponymous debut album was called...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Listening to Otis Redding will make you a better lover. How, you ask? Take Otis’s gem ‘Try A Little Tenderness.’ This song has a mysterious power to it: it not only talks about tenderness; it is tenderness; it drives you to be tender. In Catholic theological lingo,...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
In 1998 my friend Anime Emily gave me this tape that had a “mix” on one side and Athens, Georgia indie-rock band Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane over the Sea on the other. I spent three weeks listening to the first two songs on Side A over and over...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
I was a bit surprised when she first showed up in my prayer. You see, God reveals himself to each person individually in a way that person can understand. St. Ignatius of Loyola firmly believed that. Musically inclined, he experienced the Trinity as three notes...
