Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Schubert, Ave Maria

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sunday Drive: Schubert, Ave Maria

As performed in Rome in 1994 by the late, great Luciano Pavarotti:

2 comments:

Frank said...: The quintessential Ave Maria. There is another version I heard many years ago (by whom I cannot recall) that moved me. I'm sure this is heresy to many evangelicals!; April 19, 2020 at 9:10 AM
Russ Manley said...: The Schubert is my favorite. M.P. prefers the Gounod version, which Streisand did so well on her first Christmas album.; April 20, 2020 at 6:18 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu