God is VERY Big and God is HAPPENING Now

Yes,YES,Dr.McCoy!
BRAVA...and Thank you!...And thank you, Herbert McCabe, OP...and Dennis...and all the other 500 who read your posts.

WHEN SHIFT Happens...idolatry is our greatest temptation...thinking somehow we must have control over it all. Now is our greatest call to a faith that must be larger than it ever was!

Shalom,
Sister Lea

"Yahweh is the God of freedom and there are to be no other gods… The important thing is not just to be religious, to worship something somehow. The important thing is to find, or be found by, the right God and to reject and struggle against the others... This God of freedom will allow you none of the comforts of religion. Not only does he tear you away from the old traditional shrines and temples of your native place, but he will not even allow you to worship him in the old way. You are forbidden to make an image of him by which you might wield
numinous power, you are forbidden to invoke his name in magical rites. You must deny the other gods and you must not treat Yahweh as a god, as a power you could use against your enemies or to help you to succeed in life. Yahweh is not a god, there are no gods, they are all delusions and slavery. You are not to try to comprehend God within the conventions and symbols of your time and place; you are to have no image of God because the only image of God is man."

-- Herbert McCabe, OP

Thank you Dr.McCoy. It is interesting to me that you saw the music as integral to the intellectual and spiritual impact of the piece. It is interesting that the focus was the fiddle style(as distinct from the violin). Celtic style, whether fast and furious or langourous slow or mournful aires with its heart beat and rhythm calls to my mind the myth of St. John, head resting on the breast of Jesus, listening to the heartbeat of God.

"The Celtic Mass for the Sea" (Scott MacMillan) with its lyrics may be difficult to find but worthy of a listen.