For recessional today, 9.30.2018, our cantor announced "Sent forth by God's Blessing," which I find a remarkable and beautiful choice. Even the melody sounds like people walking out into a new day with purpose.
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Please note these three links:
A biography of Omer Westendorf from a Collegeville website.
And a reference to one of his pseudonyms, J. Clifford Evers, HERE.
And an extensive obituary from the Cincinnati Enquirer of 10.23.1997.
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Hymns
For some time, the richness of the hymns sung in church has piqued my curiosity. By hymns, I include the psalms, the canticles, such as the Benedictus and the Magnificat, the ancient hymns, as the Trisagion, the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, those of John Wesley, and hymns of more recent times. As Google's Blogger allows posts to be updated, I don't know where this post will lead.
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For starters, today we sang a hymn by Omer Westendorf, whose life was entirely in the 20th century, with a Welsh melody. In searching for his biography, I came upon this most interesting site from Collegeville.
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For starters, today we sang a hymn by Omer Westendorf, whose life was entirely in the 20th century, with a Welsh melody. In searching for his biography, I came upon this most interesting site from Collegeville.
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