It is such a shame that NPR is a very left radio station, because it is one of the few to regularly have classical music play often. A beautiful nice break from everything else. There are some rare radio songs like “You Gotta Keep Your Head Up” that come with a nice message and aren’t focused on love or unstable relationships, or at least are relatively wholesomeish, but then it descends from there into very undesirable (and potential moral travesties in one way or another) such as “Like We’re Gonna Die Young” (the music video), “Last Friday Night”, “Toxic”, “The Truth May Vary Thus” (I hope I named it right), “A Hundred Bad Days/A Hundred Good Stories” (takes God’s Holy Name in vain at least three times in the song), and “Just Like Fire”. Some of these regularly play at Kroger and other places, and…that’s not right. “The Truth May…” and “Just Like Fire”, I think, contain blatant cursing, and I…just don’t like “Toxic” for my own reasons.
Did you know that Joseph Haydn was Catholic? It is said that he took his ideas to the feet of Our Mother, Mary, and asked her for counsel and help when he prayed the Holy Rosary.
So many Catholic Saints were Priests or in Religious Orders, but not everyone is called to those states. So many Catholic Saints have also remained in the world, although they were not of this world. The very wording of this fact is very important. Many important Catholics made wonderful and beautiful contributions in artwork, musical pieces, and more, all for The Greater Glory of God. Think of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, which has so many beautiful allegories. Think of how Frodo trying to win Sméagol with kindness is a mirror to how true faithful Catholics should win over souls to the truth with gentleness, meekness, patience, and with good example. It was definitely not Frodo’s fault that Sméagol was captured by Faramir. The most important thing is to do God’s Holy and Adorable Will in the present moment, and leave everything to Him!
For a list of Classical Pieces that God Willed to be preserved that you can listen to, see this list.
Under Mary's Mantle 