Monday, August 13, 2012

Be Still My Soul


For the last few weeks I have been in a blue funk.  Nothing seems to be going right in my life.  Several weeks ago I deliberately skipped Mass.  I just did not want to go near church or people.  That is a good way for me to determine how bad the depression has become.
 
I mentioned this  to a friend and she stressed in no uncertain terms how important it is to go to Mass on Sundays.  Don’t get me wrong, at times I need to get hit upside the head figuratively to get the idea.  The next Sunday I was very tempted to skip Mass but I heard my friend’s voice telling me emphatically to get off my backside and go to church. 
 
Of course I needed Mass, I needed Communion but I also needed one of the hymns we sang at the Offertory.  It was Be Still My Soul set to Finlandia by Jean Sibelius.   Here I offer one rendition of this beautiful hymn.



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