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A musical prayer for victims of racial violence – Psalm Offering 6, Opus 7
Look, O LORD, at the anguish I suffer!
My stomach churns,
And my heart recoils within me:
How bitter I am!
Outside the sword bereaves—
indoors, there is death.
Hear how I am groaning;
there is no one to comfort me. (Lamentations 1: 1-2a, NABRE)
The November 2016 elections revealed to the world that the racial bigotry and violence that had marred the history of the United States is as vicious as it had been in the past. I, along with many Americans, had hoped that this ugly past had been wiped away during the advances made during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s. How this has been proven false in the few months that have passed since trump’s inauguration. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has worked to reinstitutionalize racial hatred in the Federal Government, fueling the violence and hatred of a small-minded, easily swayed minority of white bigots.
This Psalm Offering is a prayer offered up for victims of racial violence.
(c) 2017 by Deacon Bob Wagner OFS.
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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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