Author: Carlos Colon

Sending my love in this hour of trial, to my sweet friends!

Last October, a precious choral group of friends from El Paso, Texas traveled with me to El Salvador to remember San Oscar Romero. We joined the choir from Universidad Don Bosco and traveled together to sing and be one in heart. This is from a rehearsal at UCA, San Salvador. This is one of the songs we sang, “Vencerá el Amor” “Love Shall Overcome”.

Vencerá el amor, aunque acechen tempestades;
y aunque hay dolor, pasarán las maldades.
Vencerá el amor, aunque tristes extrañemos
a quienes hoy no están, más sin embargo viven.

Vencerá el bien sobre tantas vejaciones.
Vencerá también nuestra oraciones.
Y estas lágrimas que juntos derramamos
ungirán con paz nuestroa corazones.

Vencerá el amor, vencerá, vencerá el amor.

You can order the hymnal here and now from GIA Publications!!!

This are some video samples of a workshop today where we presented our new hymnal.

Nuestra Ayuda/Our Help is a bilingual song who I wrote with Martin Tel from Princeton seminary:

A River Flows Through Babylon / En Babilonia Hay Ríos uses a text inspired on Psalm 137 by Adam Tice:

And here’s the hymnal setting of the traditional Holy, Holy, Holy / Santo, Santo, Santo:

Source: Missing Migrants Project

The statics are heartbreaking. Tim Muth writes:

c This compares to 212 deaths in all of 2018.  The number of deaths has increased every year since 2014.”

Read his full post here.

 

I have lately discovered the exquisite poetry of Malcolm Guite. He is well-known. It just happens that most of the poetry I read is in Spanish…

As some of you know, I have been journeying with the Gospel of John for a while. Here’s Malcolm‘s poem on the saint and his gospel.

Credits: Hear Mr. Guite read his poem here. And explore the site for more of his wonderful poetry.

John

This is the gospel of the primal light,

The first beginning, and the fruitful end,

The soaring glory of an eagle’s flight,

The quiet touch of a beloved friend.

This is the gospel of our transformation,

Water to wine and grain to living bread,

Blindness to sight and sorrow to elation,

And Lazarus himself back from the dead!

This is the gospel of all inner meaning,

The heart of heaven opened to the earth,

A gentle friend on Jesus’ bosom leaning,

And Nicodemus offered a new birth.

No need to search the heavens high above,

Come close with John, and feel the pulse of Love.