Bonus Points on New Year's Eve

What if I told you . . .

On New Year’s Eve, you can win bonus points (indulgences) for admission into Heaven if you sing the Te Deum!

Of course, the usual conditions apply of being in a state of grace and having been to Confession within a month and receiving Holy Communion on Sundays.

Te Deum - Monastic Chant in Latin (Solemn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwV9l-U8ds

Monks of the one of the Abbeys of the Solesmes Congregation sing this beautiful chant. The Te Deum is attributed to two Fathers and Doctors of the Church, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine and is one the most majestic chants in the Liturgy of the Church. It is sung in traditional seminaries and monastic houses at the Divine Office and for Double feasts of the First Class, The Nativity, Easter, Corpus Christi, Epiphany, Pentecost and those which have an Octave. The solemn Te Deum is sung on all occasions of public Church rejoicing (in Traditional Catholic Churches)

Te Deum Laudamus - Catholic Gregorian Chant Hymns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9nBRKjwMg

Te Deum – in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5f-LYo5nkA

From France (with good pictures):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_gcJc1MmCQ

New Year's Eve Tradition - Psalm 150

What if I told you . . .

It is an old tradition to sing the last Psalm – Psalm 150 – during Vespers (6pm prayers) on the last day of the year.

           

From Aarhus-Denmark - The Choir Of The Catholic Church Our Lady - Olav K. Jepsen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2D8rEx9Qqs

Psalm 150

1Hallelujah!

Praise God in his holy sanctuary;^*a

give praise in the mighty dome of heaven.

2Give praise for his mighty deeds,^b

praise him for his great majesty.

3Give praise with blasts upon the horn,^c

praise him with harp and lyre.

4Give praise with tambourines and dance,

praise him with strings and pipes.^d

5Give praise with crashing cymbals,

praise him with sounding cymbals.

6Let everything that has breath

give praise to the LORD!^e

Hallelujah!

http://www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/150:1

New Year's Eve Activities - Watch This Movie

Waterloo Bridge – Vivien Leigh & Robert Taylor

This old movie is very popular in China and throughout Asia.  Many Chinese learn to speak the English sentences in this movie.

The singer is Ngoc Lan. She comes from Viet Nam. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3afAIi6IQ

Another version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff0McUfe590

A Celtic Christmas Carol @ Inner Splendor

Dec 31:  Happy 7^th Day of Christmas – Seven Swans A Swimming

In The Spirit of Peace: An Irish Holiday Celebration - A Celtic Christmas Carol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYmrUmRsATI

Full Album available at http://www.celticchristmasmusic.org/ or download at iTunes and Amazon.com, simply search for "Inner Splendor Christmas Music."

Inner Splendor Media's "In The Spirit of Peace" is a stirring, mystical, richly textured collection of classic Christmas melodies and new holiday music, performed by some of the British Isles most accomplished musicians.

This one-of-a-kind song cycle wraps the familiar melodies of Christmas around a Celtic musical foundation, with Ann Malone and Sarah Warwick's vocals augmented by traditional Gaelic instruments like the Uilleann Pipes and the Bodhran. You'll hear classic Christmas music as you never have before, with driving rhythms, hypnotic vocal harmonies and virtuosic instrumental performances.

To create "In The Spirit of Peace," Ann Malone, Alan Reekie and Rob Smith assembled a group of Irish and Scottish musicians with lifelong passions for their homeland's music. The ensemble imbues each song with the weight, power and character of the Celtic musical tradition, which was born in India and traveled through Romania, Eastern Europe and France before blossoming in Ireland and Scotland. Delicate, driving, melodic and spiritual, "In The Spirit of Peace" is a tapestry of sound that will enrich your entire winter.

As a whole, "In The Spirit of Peace" encompasses a wide musical range, drawing upon the full spectrum of the musical tradition from which it springs forth. Among classics like "O Holy Night," "Little Drummer Boy" and "Silent Night," the album includes traditional folk melodies and captivating original songs like lead single "Mahaday," an Ann Malone composition that celebrates the Spanish and Latin side of the Celtic tradition. A rousing rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" recalls an Irish pub session, while a hypnotic, near-reggae "Carol of the Bells" is both meditative and propulsive.

Inner Splendor Media is a recording company that specializes in pure, simple, elemental and beautiful music found all over the world. "In The Spirit of Peace" is the first of two new collections of Christmas music released by the company in late 2009.

Elizabeth Warren - She's Running For President Already!

2020 ALREADY? // 

Massachusetts liberal Senator Liz Warren got a seat on the Armed Services Committee for next year, which people speculate she's doing to get her resume ready for a 2020 presidential run. 

http://cvote.it/2iH8f1S

She’s a radical progressive woman from a socialist state.

She falsely claims to be a descendent of Native Americans.  

She has a loud and shrill speaking/shouting tone (just like Hillary). 

She demands that all 50 states embrace socialism.  

She’s perfect for the Democrats.

Song of the Day: Coventry Carol

The “Coventry Carol”, a lullaby of mothers to doomed children, dates to the 16th century. It was part of a Mystery Play, “The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors”, about chapter two of the Gospel of Matthew.  The carol is about the Massacre of the Holy Innocents. The carol came to greater popularity after the BBC broadcast it at Christmas of 1940, after the Bombing of Coventry: it was sung in the ruins of the bombed Cathedral.

Sung on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec 28):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lpiQ4IPzEE

Another version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskYCoNkwVg

The Coventry Carol

Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child, 
By, by, lully, lullay. 
Lullay, thou little tiny Child, 
By, by, lully, lullay.

O sisters too, how may we do, 
For to preserve this day 
This poor youngling for whom we do sing 
By, by, lully, lullay.

Herod, the king, in his raging, 
Charged he hath this day 
His men of might, in his own sight, 
All children young to slay.

Then, woe is me, poor Child for Thee! 
And ever mourn and sigh 
For thy parting neither say nor sing, 
By, by, lully, lullay.

Who is the Anti-Christ foretold in Apocalypse/Revelations by St. John ?

St. John warned us about Mohammed . . .

Obama is not the anti-Christ after all.  

As you know, the Book of Revelations was written by St. John who may have also been St. John the Evangelist who may have also been St. John the youngest and beloved apostle who rested his head on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper.  

The Book of Revelations was written after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in the year 70 AD as was foretold by Jesus.   That is why there is no Jewish Temple in Jerusalem to this day.

St. John wrote the Book of Revelations while exiled on the island of Patmos (in modern Turkey) during the Roman persecutions of that growing group of radicals called Christians.

The Book of Revelations predicts the rise of the anti-Christ.

The anti-Christ was not Hitler.  The anti-Christ was not even Obama.  The anti-Christ was Mohammed!   Mohammed created a religion that is anti-Christian.

There will be a final battle between the Mohammedans (Muslims) and the followers of Christ.  Some believe it will be at the Plains of Mogedda in Israel – AKA:  Armaggedon!