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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, August 08, 2025

Yes, I've Changed Parishes

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On the morning of the feast of St. Martha (and Mary, and Lazarus), a friend who regularly prays Morning Prayer with our group asked me about...
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Friday, December 06, 2024

Depth of Identity

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Must articulate more thoughts provoked by yet another song.  Because I went down a Yannick Bisson rabbit hole a few months ago (because of ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Better than a Hallelujah

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 Recently I was reminded again of the song Better than a Hallelujah, which Amy Grant recorded in 2010. From the first that I heard it, it...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Dance, Child. Dance

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One of my favorite rules I had for my kids (ok, maybe it was more my son) when they were growing up (right after, yes, you may sing about po...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Let Advent In

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Tomorrow I'm singing in a community choir Christmas concert, and today was our dress rehearsal. Somewhere along the line this morning I ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A Gift of Grace

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Six years ago today, something profound happened. In fact, it was so profound that six years later I know I'm only beginning to take it ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Singing, Vulnerability, and Conversion

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So, I mentioned in my catch-up post that I'm involved in ChristLife. I've been in several different roles, including administration,...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Is Anybody Thirsty for This?

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Would that all God's people were prophets! (Num. 11:29) Catholics who find it normal to invoke the Holy Spirit to activate spiritua...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

Onething2015: My Initial, Personal Report

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I have just returned from the Onething2015 conference where for the first time ever there was a Catholic track . And here I am in my very ow...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

How in the World Did I Get Here?

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Do you ever have one of those moments where reality flashes before you (in a good way) and you ask yourself "How in the world did I get...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Holy Darkness

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Stop. Don't.

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I need to take a break from heavy thinking, writing and evaluation for tonight, but I don't want to give up my daily blogging streak. ...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Why Praise Music Fails

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It's been almost two months since I went on this walking pilgrimage , but today a certain facet of it is standing out to me in big relie...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Habitual Desperation

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Michael W. Smith's song Breathe was somewhat popular as a worship song in circles I moved in a few years ago. In the chorus the soul si...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

He Passed the Trial by Fire

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Last night I saw Michael Nesmith in concert in Pittsburgh. It was a surreal experience in many ways. My husband and I approached the ven...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Holy Darkness

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This afternoon at the Mass for the Carmelite community's profession, we sang this as the communion hymn. In fact, it was these precise v...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

I Hate it When I Wake up in the Morning and I'm Not the Center of the Universe

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The other day I was washing our fruit bowl and this caused me to realize how tremendously patient, merciful and humble God is in His relatio...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

I Think I'm Too Much of a Chicken to Give this Post the Title It Should Have

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I shall now go off about something that is not really my problem, though it is my concern and has been my concern for years. I feel like, ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

You are My All in All

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Another year of Vacation Bible School is complete. I have to say that my favorite part of it, when I can get it to happen, is not helping w...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Why Record a CD?

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(This blog post originally appeared on my website, www.mariehosdil.com , where you can buy the CD in question.) Recently someone aske...