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Benedict praises "glorious music" of Bach in festival message
Catholic News Agency ^
| July 28, 2020
| CNA
Posted on 07/28/2020 11:32:31 AM PDT by Marchmain
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has praised the glorious music of Johann Sebastian Bach in a message to a festival in Germany.
In a statement released July 27 by the organizers of the 2021 Bach Festival in Leipzig, Benedict XVI noted that the festival would include a cycle called Bachs Messiah, chronicling the life of Jesus through the composers music.
The particularity of this festival is that it has merged the works of Bach relating to the life and work of Jesus Christ of Nazareth into a whole, thus giving us a kind of Messiah by Bach, he wrote.
The Bach Festival will be held on June 12-15, 2021, with the theme of Redemption. The Bachs Messiah cycle will consist of 11 concerts over four days in the churches of Leipzig, the city in eastern Germany where the Lutheran composer died in 1750. The cycle will include 33 Bach cantatas, the St. Matthew Passion, and the Christmas, Easter and Ascension Oratorios.
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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: bach; music
The faith that produced this music and which Bach, as a musician, loyally served, is now extinguished and continues to have an effect only as a cultural force. (!)
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:32:31 AM PDT
by
Marchmain
To: Marchmain
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: Marchmain
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:35:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: Marchmain
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:36:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: Marchmain
How long before the left bans this as subversive? From the article:
Benedicts message said: The faith that produced this music and which Bach, as a musician, loyally served, is now extinguished and continues to have an effect only as a cultural force.
As a devout Christian, one may regret this reduction, but it also has a positive element. For the fact remains that something is accepted as culture, that is the fruit of a devout encounter with Jesus and that bears this origin in it forever.
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:49:35 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Marchmain
He’s irrelevant. Has he condemned the marxist violence in US cities? No. So he should shut up.
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posted on
07/28/2020 11:52:53 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
To: I want the USA back
I think of him as a kind of Judas. He laid down the cross that was his to bear. He still has time to repent, I pray he does.
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posted on
07/28/2020 12:22:25 PM PDT
by
Varda
To: Marchmain
June 12-15, 2021: That will be something to look forward to.
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posted on
07/28/2020 12:54:30 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of love the Angels!)
To: Wilhelm Tell
Yes, the psychotic left will probably try to destroy all copies of Bach's music, and the so-called "journalists" of the MSM will cheer them on.
Pass the emesis basin!
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posted on
07/28/2020 12:56:32 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of love the Angels!)
To: I want the USA back
Nicht diesen, sondern Barrabam!
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posted on
07/28/2020 1:48:36 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: Varda
He laid down the cross that was his to bear.It is very easy for you to judge at your keyboard.
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posted on
07/28/2020 1:54:27 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
To: frogjerk
I didn’t accept being Pope.
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posted on
07/28/2020 2:01:21 PM PDT
by
Varda
To: Varda
You weren’t asked.
JP I, on the other hand, agreed to give it a month.
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posted on
07/28/2020 3:08:03 PM PDT
by
Hieronymus
(“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
To: Hieronymus
We’re all asked to pick up our crosses. Some are put to a more severe test than others.
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posted on
07/28/2020 3:15:07 PM PDT
by
Varda
To: Varda
Given a choice between being dead and having to live through the past 8 years, I have a guess on what would have been the easier cross.
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posted on
07/28/2020 3:41:42 PM PDT
by
Hieronymus
(“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
To: Red Badger
I may still have that LP, somewhere.
And Walter Carlos, long long before it was trendy, became Wendy Carlos. Just an aside.
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posted on
07/28/2020 7:34:24 PM PDT
by
Lee N. Field
("He will swallow up death forever" Isaiah 25)
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