Angelus News | July 31-August 7, 2020 | Vol. 5 No. 21
The eight deacons being ordained priests Aug. 8 for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles strike a pose in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Starting on Page 10, the men of St. John’s Seminary’s “Pandemic Class of 2020” reflect on where God called them from and what they’re looking forward to the most. The eight deacons being ordained priests Aug. 8 for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles strike a pose in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Starting on Page 10, the men of St. John’s Seminary’s “Pandemic Class of 2020” reflect on where God called them from and what they’re looking forward to the most.
soul-cleaving power of love; or they are political slogans, as ephemeral as last week’s newspaper, though not so good for lining a bird cage.” The old hymns, from the early Fathers of the Church to the early 20th century, “were always talking about the Trinity. They were always talking about the Word made flesh,” Esolen says. “It’s pretty high theology. It never focuses on the feelings of the singer. That would have struck them as kind of beside the point.” Here’s hymn IV, for which Esolen suggests the tune “Picardy.” (You may know the tune as “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.”) He writes his hymns to fit the tunes, and once you’ve read — or sung — this hymn to this haunting tune, any other way will feel wrong. “From the desert came the sages, Crossed the Jordan in the cold, With the star of Judah gleaming, Making straight the way foretold; Found the Child and gave in homage Frankincense and myrrh and gold. From the desert of Judea Came the prophet’s piercing cry, Calling sinners to the waters Of the Jordan rushing by, That they might be found preparing For the Savior drawing nigh. Unto John then came our Savior, In the fire of righteousness; Dove-like, brooding on the waters, Fell the voice from heaven to bless; Then the most beloved Messiah Fasted in the wilderness. Come to us then in the desert, Where Thy sheep have lost their way, Lost the pasture by the river, While the lion stalks his prey; In the trackless night, O Savior, Be Thyself our break of day.” In the Bible, a hundredfold refers to receiving in return much more than has been given, sown, or invested. Esolen wants us to rediscover our powerful birthright of poetry — that dynamite! — and experience the hundredfold return of joy and faith. He wrote this book “as a first salvo in the Christian reclamation of the land of imagination and song.” “I am not so much showing what I can do as showing what can be done, and what might be done by people with greater skill than mine. I want not emulators and imitators but people who will charge past me in blood and triumph. I am a battered old soldier on bad knees, who knows that the hill must be charged and who knows of one or two ways it might be done. He takes up the torn standard of the cross and hobbles up the first reaches of that height, crying out instructions that he himself has not the strength to fulfill, teaching more by audacity and exposure than by success, willing to look like a fool, to be shot down in the first volleys, but knowing that unless he or someone like him does this, the hill will remain always in the fist of the enemy. So he goes.” Jane Greer edited and published “Plains Poetry Journal” and is author of “Bathsheba on the Third Day.” T NE 30 • ANGELUS • July 31-August 7, 2020
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TWO<br />
NEW SHOWS!<br />
TRENDING<br />
withh Timmerie<br />
10:30–11am PT<br />
WITH CALE CLARKE<br />
Learn the Faith.<br />
Love the Faith.<br />
3–4pm PT<br />
Fascinating facts.<br />
Candid conversations.<br />
Sharing stories that<br />
enhance your Faith.<br />
<strong>No</strong>w, that’s relevant.<br />
Bringing Christ to the world<br />
through the media<br />
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