Friday, March 29, AD 2024 3:29am

The Wexford Carol

At the Wednesday night rehearsal of our parish instrumental group (trumpet, two clarinets, guitar, two flutes, tympani–and me on a bowed psaltery) the director played a recording of a carol we will play in the prelude before the 7:30 pm Christmas Vigil Mass, the Wexford Carol.   It’s beautiful and out of the way–I found a YouTube of it with Alison Kraus and Yo-Yo Ma and lyrics that I hope you all will enjoy:

 

For me, music is the road to faith and one hymn is worth 10 homilies.

 

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Sunday, December 24, AD 2017 1:16pm

[…] Why Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh Matter – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative. . . The Wexford Carol – Bob Kurland Ph.D., The American Catholic Meaningful Christmas: 7 Lights from B16 – […]

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