On Saturday, Oddwalk was part, along with many other folks (see picture, left) of the music ministry for the closing mass at the St. Vincent de Paul Society National Convention in St. Louis. There are probably another dozen folks who didn’t make the picture, as Shannon snapped it hastily with his phone at a lull in rehearsal.
Archbishop Carlson, new in town, was the presider and homilist – and a pretty good one at that! That was our first experience with him in person.
Peter Hesed, director of music at the parish in Orin’s neighborhood, St. Margaret of Scotland, took the lead in organizing and directing the large ensemble – congratulations to him on a fine success, and thanks to SVDP for their service to the Church and the world.
This line from the liturgy of the word, from the epistle of James stood out as especially appropriate:
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters.
Did not God choose those who are poor in the world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom
that he promised to those who love him?