Than damn boat’s French. LOL

“Oldflyer Says:
March 28th, 2016 at 1:00 pm

DNW, the Navy Hymn has always had special meaning ever since the Naval Aviation Cadet Pre-flight Regiment marched into Chapel on Sunday mornings and sang it fervently, if not well. “Lord guard and guide the men who fly through the great reaches in the sky”. “

Good story.

There are a couple of worthwhile videos on YouTube. One of which shows a relatively modern looking frigate ploughing the waves for a full minute before the hymn kicks in.

I don’t know why it should have such great appeal, but it does.

Back then, we sort of envied the Jewish Cadets who were allowed to go into town for services at a local Tabernacle.

As far as I know, Atheists just bit the bullet. Obviously, that was a long time ago.

It reminds me that although I’m no judge of music, there were, to my limited musical sensibilities anyway, some good things in the bad old days of those bad old hippies; who, in retrospect, were just a half generation or so older anyway.

Thus, in line with that I was shocked a couple years ago to recognize that I rather liked the old spiritual, “Oh Happy Day”; whether it was by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, or even, perhaps oddly, Glenn Campbell. Both are easily found on YouTube for those interested; though the audio on the Campbell uploads is uniformly poor and makes it unlistenable even if you don’t object to the performer himself..

The older Catholics here might like to type in Sanctus VIII DeAngelis on YouTube for an interesting and moving, if not seasonal hymn.

If I were to pick a hymn off the top of my head, I like many others would probably pick the Naval Hymn. Maybe I saw too many “Victory at Sea” episodes as a small child.

I see Beverly said “we had a glorious service, with this hymn as the processional” and linked to what I take it is the hymn “Christ the Lord has Risen Today”.

I searched for something clearer and could not really find an outstanding performance.

Beverly also says,

“Then tonight I read that 65 of our fellow Christians were martyred in Lahore, Pakistan, today, and 300 terribly wounded, by the hate-maddened Taliban. They’re in the grip of a demonic doctrine.”

And if Internet reports are correct, a kidnapped Catholic Priest has been crucified by Muslim militants.

This behavior, clearly demonstrated in other instances if not this one, goes beyond the simply murderous, to sadism of a kind which exhibits a gleeful leap from humanity into a profound, essentially nihilistic, otherness.

I went to the beautiful Grace Episcopal Church on Broadway this morning with a friend, where we had a glorious service, with this hymn as the processional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkAKLRthHJM

Then tonight I read that 65 of our fellow Christians were martyred in Lahore, Pakistan, today, and 300 terribly wounded, by the hate-maddened Taliban. They’re in the grip of a demonic doctrine.

Pray for those souls. I know we need to pray for those lost to Islam, too, but it’s so, so hard. Jesus told us not to fear those who can kill the body — but to fear those who can kill the soul.

Happy Easter to everyone.