As has been discussed here for years, the best secular, non-liturgical music is that which can be heard as either God singing to man, or man singing to God.

Just reiterating – this is music for OUTSIDE the liturgy – OUTSIDE the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office.

Here’s one!  A really good one, too!

“To Make You Feel My Love”, originally penned by Bob Dylan, but covered to great effect by my so-not-favorite country singer, in fact, the man who ATE country music… Garth Brooks.  Yeah.  I know.

Anyway, if you read the lyrics as God singing to mankind, and disregard the whole Garth Brooks qua Garth Brooks thing, it will make you cry.  I have added a couple of suggestive motifs below, in red brackets.

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When the rain’s blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case [worldly and demonic persecution]
I would offer you a warm embrace [Confession and Eucharist]
To make you feel My Love

When the evening shadows and the stars appear [demons and their human allies and mercenaries]
And there is no one to dry your tears [because sweetie, there probably ain’t gonna be]
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel My Love

I know you haven’t made your mind up yet [Because you have free will]
But I would never do you wrong [The Law]
I’ve known it from the moment that we met [When I created you and sewed you together in your mother’s womb]
There’s no doubt in My Mind where you belong [With Me, in heaven, forever]

I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue [the Scourging at the Pillar]
I’d go crawling down the avenue [The Way of the Cross to Calvary]
There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel My Love

The storms are raging on a rollin’ sea
Down on the highway of regret [Sin]
The winds of change are blowing wild and free [Heretics, Antipope Bergoglio…]
But you ain’t seen nothing like Me yet [Come, Eternal and Unchanging Lord Jesus]

There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do [Humiliation, torture, execution, withstand sacrilege]

Go to the ends of the earth for you [Incarnation leading to Calvary, and then the Eucharist, the Real Presence in the Eucharist all over the earth in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass]

Make you happy, make your dreams come true [We can’t even begin to imagine…]
To make you feel My…….. Love [I’m in.  You had me at “Hello.”]

I’ve been looking for this online for YEARS and it has finally popped up on YouTube. I grew up with this Time Life vinyl set on my turntable. It is by far the best compilation of all of the Big Band hits, recorded in Hi-Fi, probably in the 1970s, but with perfect fidelity to the original compositions. This YouTube posting is clearly a turntable capture via USB cable – you can hear the very subtle and sublime scratching that makes vinyl so nostalgic and wonderful for those of us who are old enough… to know and understand.

Well worth a bookmark, or even a full capture, if you have the ability. This is the BEST compilation of instrumental Big Band going, and just about the best late night cleaning-up-the-kitchen music you could ask for. Speaking of which, I better get after it.

https://edwardpentin.co.uk/professor-rist-the-catholic-church-could-be-facing-a-crisis-worse-than-the-arian-controversy-of-the-4th-century/

The name “Anne” from the Hebrew “Hannah” means “Grace”, which is “Grátia” in Latin, and so the names Anne and Grace are Hebrew-Latin equivalents. So happy name day to all of the Graces out there too!

Who is this dashing figure manfully wielding his ASSAULT WEAPON whilst trampling and slaying a bunch of quivering, cowering musloids on a field of battle? 

That’s St. James the Apostle, son of Zebedee, big bruddah of St. John. I know you probably didn’t recognize him because of the hat. Well, if you’re going to miraculously appear in Spain in the 9th century and lead a vastly outnumbered Christian Army against an invading musloid force, slaying musloids by the boatload, someone is bound to give you their sweet hat. 

St. James made a beeline for Spain to begin evangelizing after the Ascension of Our Lord. Tradition has St. James in Spain in the year ARSH 40. 804 years later, at the battle of Clavijo against the satanic musloid hordes, St. James miraculously appeared in his old home-away-from-home and, evidently, put on a clinic on killing musloids. 

St. James, adopted son and patron of Spain, has ever since been known as “Santiago Matamoros”, St. James the Moorslayer (mata = kill or slay, moros = musloids). 

To this day the battle charge cry of Spanish armies remains: 

Santiago y cierra España! 

St. James, and strike for Spain! 

I’m not optimistic for LeBron.

Hope the poor kid recovers, inasmuch as one can recover from being willfully poisoned.

https://pagesix.com/2023/07/25/lebron-james-son-bronny-18-suffers-cardiac-arrest/

Today’s theme on the Barnhardt Blog: the laying on of healing hands.

Not NEARLY enough laying on of hands being done. Not even close.

Interesting street scene in France as a group of Catholics pray an “Ave Maria” in the street and a Muslim man approaches with a stereo on full volume and stands next to them. One of those praying stands up and does a “laying on of healing hands” worthy of the biggest applause! pic.twitter.com/10SCl30G66

— David Vance (@DVATW) July 23, 2023

You were born to be Catholics — every one of ya.

And you were meant to be here tonight.

This is your time.

Their time — is done. It’s over.