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Kresta in the Afternoon – October 19, 2022 – Hour 1

Fr. Roger Landry shares how he brought the Eucharist to the streets of New York. Also, Christopher Shannon tells the story of St Isaac Jogues and the North American Martyrs, and composer Paul Jernberg previews his Mass for Persecuted Christians. 

 

 

Viewing Vatican II Through a Eucharistic Lens

In the opening address for Vatican II, Pope St. John XXIII announced that his goal for the council was to strengthen the faith and transmit it more effectively. Fr. Roger Landry points out that the entire work of the Council can be looked at through a Eucharistic key. He joins us, and also shares his experience leading a Eucharistic procession on the anniversary of the Council.

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Eucharistic procession takes Christ through Manhattan

Viewing Vatican II Through a Eucharistic Lens

The Eucharistic Harrowing of Hell’s Kitchen, Votive Mass of the Holy Eucharist, October 11, 2022

Rev. Roger Landry is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. An alumnus of Harvard College and the Pontifical North American College in Rome, he is ecclesiastical adviser for Aid to the Church in Need USA, a papally appointed Missionary of Mercy, a Missionary of the Eucharist for the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ new three-year eucharistic revitalization, and chaplain to the New York chapter of the Leonine Forum. He is the author of Plan of Life: Habits to Help you Grow Closer to God. Find his writings at Catholicpreaching.com

The North American Martyrs and our Post-Christian Culture

Today we celebrate the Feast of the North American Martyrs – Isaac Jogues, John de Brebeuf, and their companions. The enduring witness of these martyrs reaches far beyond the political conflicts of their day and provides a great lesson for Catholics today confronting their own evangelical challenges. Dr. Christopher Shannon is our guest.

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The North American Martyrs and our post-Christian secular culture

 

Dr. Christopher Shannon is the author most recently of American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey through Catholic Life in a New World. He's an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Christendom College and specializes in Irish American History, American Catholic History, and Historiography. His other books include "Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema," "Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought," and "The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History."

Mass for Persecuted Christians: Honoring the Oppressed through Music

Paul Jernberg is a composer and conductor who has worked in the fields of ballet, theater and opera. More recently, though, he has worked to compose sacred music, including music for Mass. He has composed a new fully-sung Mass for Persecuted Christians, which raises awareness and encourages prayer for Christians facing persecution around the globe. It will premiere this Friday in Massachusetts.  He joins us to share what it is like to compose music like this.

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What is it like to compose sacred music?

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Clips from the Mass for Persecuted Christians 

 

Paul Jernberg was born in Chicago in 1953. Having studied piano from an early age, he pursued a career as a piano soloist and accompanist which began in the Midwest and continued in Sweden, where he lived and worked from 1983 to 1993. While in Europe, his musical work expanded to include composition and choral directing. After his reception into the Catholic Church in 1992, and his return to the US in 1993, his career was devoted to teaching, conducting, and composing at the service of Catholic schools and parishes in Illinois and Massachusetts. Since 2017 he has continued this three-fold work as founding director of the Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music, a non-profit organization now based in Lander, Wyoming.
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