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A SONG FOR THE FIFTH DAY OF THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS
My grandchildren, Alyssa and Owen about the age of 4. They will both graduate from high school this year.
The song for this fourth day of the Christmas season, is one of six I composed for my grandchildren as a Christmas present in 2017. It is a Nocturne. A nocturne is a short musical piece, mostly composed for piano, that possesses a dreamy quality suggestive for night.
While there is no specific scripture passage from the Christmas story that best describes this song, from my own experience of my children being born, there is that quiet, peacefulness that follows the birth of a child. The peacefulness that is shown in a mother cradling her new born child. The peacefulness and wonder that accompanies the birth of a child for a father. The peacefulness expressed in Psalm 131.
¹ O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. ² But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me. ³ O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time on and forevermore. (Psalm 131, NRSV)
Nocturne For My Grandchildren, Psalm Offering 4 Opus 8 (c) 2017 by Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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