Terez Rose
Here are ten glorious pieces of music for Holy Week that will remind you that there is beauty in this world.
As a lifelong Catholic, I’ve always taken Holy Week seriously in a personal way, and the reading of “The Passion of the Lord” on Palm Sunday always deeply affects me. You’d think I’d never heard the story before— of Jesus’ triumphant arrival into Jerusalem, his Last Supper, praying in the garden of Gethsemane, his betrayal by one of his own, being tried like a criminal and dying on the cross. I’m just an emotional puddle by the end of the Mass.
As part of this year’s Lenten observation, along with giving up chocolate and wine (and yes I’m counting the days to Easter), I’ve immersed myself in spiritual, religious reading. In addition to a subscription to the publication, Give Us This Day, an enjoyable monthly paperback offering readings, daily Mass and related essays, I’m reading Anam Ċara – A Book of Celtic Wisdom, by John O’Donohue; The Places That Scare You, by Pema Chödrön; Seeing With the Heart – A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures, by Kevin O’Brien, SJ.
Yesterday afternoon when I took a hike, I felt a great spirituality arise in me. As I reached the crest of the biggest hill and looked down and around, it was nothing short of a holy moment. You add up my intensive researching of holy music for this essay, tied in with my Lenten reading, an endorphin rush from having just ascended a steep trail for twenty-five minutes, and wow, yeah, I felt utterly transported. It was a spirituality grounded both in the present and the past, in nature and in history. I wanted to cry and sing out at the same time. I wanted to surround myself in music.
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