Palm Sunday Music

I entertained myself this morning by surfing music on youtube.

VIRTUAL DIVINE OFFICE

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VIRTUAL DIVINE OFFICE 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

For Palm Sunday you will find two recorded Evening Prayer Services from the Notre Dame University at the top and a collection of sung Magnificats at the bottom of the following post:.

PALM SUNDAY FIRST VESPERS

If you have time and want to sample the Orthodox celebration of Palm Sunday from last year (remember their Palm Sunday occurs next week) this is the post

PALM SUNDAY VIGIL SERVICE

To experience a real Palm Sunday Procession, not just a journey from the Narthex or Parish Center you will want to sample this post

 PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION

This post will be updated with more explanation of what we are doing, and posts that will be coming on the new blog

Mass on television

There has been a good amount of recent discussion on NewGathering about watching mass via the media rather than attending in person.

Getty Challenge: A Bit of Entertainment

Maybe some of you have heard of the challenge issued by the Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles, in which art fans were invited to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite works of art.
From the article:

Two prayers for the pandemic

Two sections of church leadership have provided a Good Friday petition for this time of the pandemic.

Inventing new words

Our local social service agency, JOURNEYS, which helps folks experiencing homelessness, puts out a newsletter periodically.  The most recent edition included this sentence - this is from an article describing how the Coronavirus has impacted the agency and its clientele:

JOURNEYS sent out its greatest need for assistance and the response was monumentous.

What to make of a coinage like "monumentous"?  My first instinct was to assume that this word (if it is a word - but read on) was just a flat-out mistake - that the author clearly meant "monumental" and somehow managed to append the wrong suffix.

Why has COVID-19 largely spared California so far?

Victor Davis Hanson, of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, is a rather unorthodox conservative thinker and pundit.  He is a scholar who used to write about such unusual topics as the virtue of being self-sufficient and working with one's hands, whether that means doing one's own car repair or planting grape vines.  Until President Trump was elected, I used to find him an interesting read.  Unfortunately, he now strikes me as largely "in the bag" for the president.

But this article in National Review isn't about Trump (at least not explicitly - see the end of the post for a thought on that).  His point of departure is that the COVID-19 rhetoric coming from California's governor, Gavin Newsom, and the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has been extremely pessimistic.