Paragraph 1733 And Its Influence On Richard Wagner's Music
At 5AM, on the morning of June 16th, Germania was laying on her back, her eyes opened, as she stared at the blank ceiling above. The sun was only several minutes away from rousing her rosy fingers over the Pennsylvanian landscape. Germania wished she could continue sleeping, but she was unable to, as the snores of her sister, Ingeborg “Inge” Bauer, kept her awake. Even though it was not something she would normally do, listening to the Godmother mumble German in her sleep, proved to be an interestingly peculiar endeavor.
While listening to the Godmother speaking in German as she slept, Germania learned that the Godmother was in fact reciting various passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. More precisely, Paragraph 1733, which is …show more content…
I wonder if that was the reason why Mark Twain once wrote: ‘Wagner's music is better than it sounds.’ Then again, I guess every English teacher in the Greater American Catholic School System will never know the answer to that one.
Speaking of ‘everyone’s favorite’: the band members of Philly’s one and only Razorback are proud to announce the release of their next album. The split-CD album is called ‘Christ Jesus Lives’, which they composed in collaboration with well-known bands like Schwarzwald and three others–coming to you loud and proud on the 28th of June. Look for it on CD and iTunes.
In other news, the Catholic school students in Savannah, Georgia are witnessing the huge influx of Girl Scouts who come to the city in droves to visit the birthplace of their founder. Juliette Gordon Low, for those of you who aren’t in the know (and that includes also everyone who listens to this podcast), has a very interesting history with Holy Mother Church. Shortly after founding the organization, in 1912, Low spoke to the then Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, consulting His Eminence about the project. After being convinced about how effective the project would be in practice, His Eminence and the rest of the clergymen in the US at the time eventually allowed the Girl Scouts to be a viable group for Catholic girls, which was made official in the 1920s, where whole troops were formed from the ranks of girls within the same schools that existed because of the Third Plenary Council of
While listening to the Godmother speaking in German as she slept, Germania learned that the Godmother was in fact reciting various passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. More precisely, Paragraph 1733, which is …show more content…
I wonder if that was the reason why Mark Twain once wrote: ‘Wagner's music is better than it sounds.’ Then again, I guess every English teacher in the Greater American Catholic School System will never know the answer to that one.
Speaking of ‘everyone’s favorite’: the band members of Philly’s one and only Razorback are proud to announce the release of their next album. The split-CD album is called ‘Christ Jesus Lives’, which they composed in collaboration with well-known bands like Schwarzwald and three others–coming to you loud and proud on the 28th of June. Look for it on CD and iTunes.
In other news, the Catholic school students in Savannah, Georgia are witnessing the huge influx of Girl Scouts who come to the city in droves to visit the birthplace of their founder. Juliette Gordon Low, for those of you who aren’t in the know (and that includes also everyone who listens to this podcast), has a very interesting history with Holy Mother Church. Shortly after founding the organization, in 1912, Low spoke to the then Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, consulting His Eminence about the project. After being convinced about how effective the project would be in practice, His Eminence and the rest of the clergymen in the US at the time eventually allowed the Girl Scouts to be a viable group for Catholic girls, which was made official in the 1920s, where whole troops were formed from the ranks of girls within the same schools that existed because of the Third Plenary Council of