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Bluegrass interpretation of "What a friend we have in Jesus"

I realised after posting a Youtube video last night that we have not had any bluegrass gospel for some time. My apologies for this dereliction and here is a bluegrass rendition of "What a friend we have in Jesus" by Ida Red.
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Gospel and Bluegrass

Paulinus has a good post comparing two versions of the gospel song "Old time religion" (Cf. In Hoc Signo Vinces: Old Time Religion ) This reminded me that we have not had any Bluegrass Gospel (not to be confused with Southern Gospel) for quite a while so here is a fun rendition of "Set Your Fields on Fire" by the Saltgrass Band. There is a certain amount of joshing at the beginning - if you want to skip some of this, the song begins just after 1'35" - just be sure to catch the beginning. My all-time favourite is still If you can't walk on water / Then you better get in the boat
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I wanna go to heaven in the mornin'

One or two people have hinted that the blog has been a little dominated by news of the traditional liturgy in recent months. Oh, all right, they didn't really hint or say "little". My trad readers need not fear: there will always be room here for baroque vestments, buckled shoes and papal thrones but it is true that we haven't had any fun videos for a while. So here is a little more bluegrass gospel - not for the liturgy, of course.
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If you can't walk on water / Then you better get in the boat

Here's one for Joee Blogs , Andrew and friends for the next Wagamama Bluegrass Liturgy. Priceless! H/T Credo ut Intelligam (sic) ENGLISH HUMOUR DISCLAIMER This item is posted in the belief that readers will understand it to be intended as an ironic humorous reference to a person or more than one person whose beliefs and behaviour are well-known to be entirely opposed to those suggested. No liability whatsoever can be accepted for non-English readers who assume the content of the post to be serious and thereby suffer heart failure, scandal or depression. Furthermore and or in the second place, the reference to England is in no way intended to suggest any denigration of the sense of humour of Scots, Welsh or Irish readers, and or to imply that Britain is synonymous with England and or to imply that subjects of any particular non-UK legal jurisdiction my have any difficulty at all in appreciating that the post is not intended to be serious. Furthermore and or in the third place, the ...
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Portiuncula indulgence tomorrow (and indulgences generally)

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Tomorrow, 2 August, you can gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions ( see below ) by visiting a parish Church and there reciting the Our Father and the Creed . This is called the Portiuncula indulgence and goes back to St Francis of Assisi. Fr Z has the details . Don't forget that you can also gain a plenary indulgence by visiting a Church on the day of the titular feast, and there reciting the Our Father and the Creed . I made a list of other indulgences: please see the post Plenary indulgences for particular days which has a link to the list. The post has some background information which you may find helpful since indulgences are not well understood today - which is not surprising since indulgences are not included in most Catholic education curricula, and most priests never preach about them. Therefore many Catholics are left with whatever silly, half-baked, ill-informed nonsense about indulgences happens to be current. If you want to understand the theology...
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Our Easter Faith: Not a Pious Crème Fraiche

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In public life, some basically well-meaning figures have the graciousness to wish us well at Easter and to recognise the importance of the Christian feast day. Perhaps they might assure us that their thoughts are with us at this time. That is kind of them and in Christian charity we should thank them for their kindness, but Easter should be a great deal more than that for us. We must believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the grave, in the flesh, and lives for eternity. We cannot treat Easter as a jolly holiday that heralds spring, or the remembrance of a significant event from the past. It must change us today and every day, change who we are and what we do. The Christian faith cannot be a mild custard or blancmange of religiosity. (I am showing my age. Nowadays, I should say that it cannot be reduced to a pious crème fraiche .) We bow down and adore the King of Kings, risen from the tomb, who, “[…] continues for ever,...
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Blessing of the New Painting of St Bede at Clapham Park

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This morning, the parish priest at Clapham Park, Fr Marcus Holden, blessed a new picture of the parish's patron, Saint Bede, painted by James Tildsley. It is sited over a recently installed side altar near the rear of the Church. The altar itself was acquired from Antique Church Furnishings . The website gives the information that the altar was built and carved by a nun in a convent near Liverpool. It is a beautiful piece of work and it is always a joy when such works of art find a suitable and dignified home. The inscription on the gradine is AMANS AMATUS AMOR. The sellers translate this as “Loving is the object of love” which is a reasonable stab at “dynamic equivalence”. Today the parish's relic of St Bede was exposed for veneration in its distinctive brightly-coloured reliquary. After the blessing, there was High Mass with Fr Holden as celebrant, Fr Littleton deacon, and myself subdeacon. That gave me the enjoyable task of chant...
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