The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.
Lent | Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (Psalm 51:1-12 or Psalm 119:9-16); Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33
Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.
The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.