In this audio project, St. Gregory the Great (+604) tells priests about the need to preach also the hard stuff.
Bishops especially must not be afraid to preach the truth, or worry about human respect. They have a duty to the flock, whom they must protect like a wall before the face of the enemy.
A timely message for priests and bishops of today. I rant about that for a bit.
This is taken from the Regula Pastoralis of St. Gregory, used today – the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time – in the Office of Readings in the Liturgia horarum.
I then, in perhaps a melancholy state, pull out some poetry about the Harvest Moon, which falls on this day, 4 October 2009. To help us appreciate the Harvest Moon and change of seasons we bring in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (+1881), Carl Sandberg (+1967) and Wm. Shakespeare (+1616)
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Some music along the way… and we are all over the place!
Les Brown and His Band of Renown The Capitol Years – Shine On Harvest Moon
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons – Autumn Il Cimento Dell’Armonia ed Invenzione – I Musici – Autumn – 2 – Aria, Andante
Sacerdotes Domini – O Sacrum Convivium
Yue Er Gao (The Moon On High) – China: Music of the Pipa
Autumn – Daniel Hecht – Windham Hill Sampler ’81
Rosemary Clooney – Shine On Harvest Moon – Rosie Solves The Swinging Riddle
Harvest Moon – Chris & Meredith Thompson – Clearwater
Two Socks at Play – Dances With Wolves
Leon Redbone – Shine Harvest Moon – Double Time
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- 090 09-09-05 St. Leo on the beatitudes; the sacred, sacrilege and reparation
- 089 09-08-31 Imitation of Christ on temptation and consolation, Fr. Z rambles about the world, the flesh and the devil
- 088 09-06-11 Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart; Leo XIII’s Annum Sacrum
- 087 09-05-06 Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 086 09-05-30 Year for Priests; Pius IX on priests, Mass and Holy Days of obligation
- 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
- 084 09-04-30 St. Pius V and Quo primum
- 083 09-04-19 St. Augustine on the challenge of remaining faithful
OTHER PODCAzTs about St. Gregory:
- 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
- 046 07-10-08 Gregory the Great on when pastors should SPEAK UP; priests and getting your way [I treat the same reading here and have all of the Latin and lighter fare – including how to get things changed in your parish, how to deal with priests.]
- 032 07-05-28 Gregory the Great on Job; rubrics; sacred music
You didn’t say when it was this month Father, but happy birthday!
The Moon Festival (by Su DongPo)
Bright moon, when was your birth?
Winecup in hand, I ask the deep blue sky;
Not knowing what year it is tonight
In those celestial palaces on high. I long to fly back on the wind,
Yet dread those crystal towers, those courts of jade,
Freezing to death among those icy heights!
Instead I rise to dance with my pale shadow;
Better off, after all, in the world of men.
Rounding the red pavilion,
Stooping to look through gauze windows,
She shines on the sleepless.
The moon should know no sadness;
Why, then, is she always full when dear ones are parted?
For men the grief of parting, joy of reunion,
Just as the moon wanes and waxes, is bright or dim:
Always some flaw-and so it has been since of old.
My one wish for you, is long life
And a share in this loveliness far, far away!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Fr. Z!
Oh, excellent podcazt; St. Gregory the Great, Benedict XVI, Longfellow, Sandburg, and Shakespeare with a reference to St. Augustine all in one go, who can beat it?
I grew up less than an hour from Sandburg’s Galesburg birthplace and have never been there, now I live in the Chicago area and know nothing of his life here (I looked; I live less than 10 miles from the site of his house in Elmhurst, 1919-30, which is now a church parking lot), but I’ve been to Connemara in Rocky Flat, NC twice.
Flat Rock, NC, that is.
I tried downloading it the other night on the iTunes feed but no good, looks like I’ll just have to import it as an mp3. I love all your podCasts Father, they always pick up my day.
Father. You really are a nerd. What would we do without you?
I enjoyed this podcast very much. Thank you for sharing, and happy birthday, Father Z!
Lauden: Thanks! The stats on this one have been lower than others. Strange. Nice to get some feedback on it.
Thanks, Father. When I see that you’ve come out with a new podcast, I have the best intentions of coming back and giving it
an attentive listen. Of course, good intentions are like babies crying in church in that they should be carried out immediately.
I’m very glad I came back for this. Oh, and happy belated birthday!
Clinton: Thanks for the belated greetings… but I assume that was for last year. This year’s hasn’t arrived yet!
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