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This was originally a song I wrote for our wedding. A good friend of mine from the College of St. Catherine, Diane Strafelda, a voice major, sang it at our wedding. The text was taken from the Song of Songs, a book in the Hebrew scriptures, used quite often at weddings (” Set me as a seal upon your heart,as a seal upon your arm”).
The music has long been lost, but over the years I have remembered the primary melody of the song. This past April, I took that melody I had composed for our wedding and composed an entire new setting of it piano. In short, this is not what was sung at our wedding, but something much more expansive, much more beautiful.
Ruthie has long been the inspiration for much in my life. The love, the joy, the care, the compassion, the intelligence, the beauty of life I have experienced with Ruth is present in every pitch. She is my life’s breath and without her I would wither and die.
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The piano score for the new setting of our wedding song.Ruth and I on our 40th wedding anniversary.
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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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