March 27 - Wednesday of Holy Week (2024)

March 29 - Good Friday (2024)

When I survey the wondrous cross

20250406 - Christ our Great High Priest

April 10 - Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent (2025)

April 13 - Palm Sunday (2025)

Passiontide, Woodpecker Presiding, Communion, 4’33

‘Is there such a thing as silence?
Even if I get away from people, do I still have to listen to something? 
Say I’m off in the woods, do I have to listen to a stream babbling?
Is there always something to hear, never any peace and quiet?
If my head is full of harmony, melody and rhythm, what happens to me when the telephone rings, to my peace and quiet, I mean?’

– ‘Composition as Process,’ in John Cage’s Silence, p. 42. 


Passiontide, Communion, 4'33

Passiontide, Rain on Glass, Choral Evensong, 4’33

‘It is as though I were placed between two lovers or two friends. I am not the maiden who awaits her betrothed, but the unwelcome third who is with two betrothed lovers and ought to go away so that they can really be together.

If only I knew how to disappear there would be a perfect union of love between God and the earth I tread, the sea I hear…’ 

– Gravity and Grace, Simone Weil. 


Passiontide, Rain on Glass, Choral Evensong, 4'33

Passiontide, Silence at Redmoor, Compline

When you begin you find 
only darkness 
and a cloud 
of unknowing. Reconcile 
yourself to wait 
in the darkness as long 
as necessary after she 
who you love. – The Cloud of Unknowing, Anon


Passiontide, Silence at Redmoor, Compline, 4'33

April 17 - Holy Thursday (2025)

'The sound experience I prefer to all others is the experience of silence, and the silence almost everywhere in the world is traffic, if you listen to Beethoven or Mozart you see that they’re always the same, if you listen to traffic you see that it's always different.' - John Cage

Priest of the Diocese of Rochester (NY); Pastor of St. Peter's Parish (Clifton Springs, NY)

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Proclaiming the timeless Gospel of Jesus Christ in Melbourne, FL.

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