{"id":1519,"date":"2010-01-11T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/01\/because-it%e2%80%99s-ok-for-catholics-to-praise-sing-dance-and-laugh-music-for-mondays\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:13:28","slug":"because-its-ok-for-catholics-to-praise-sing-dance-and-laugh-music-for-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/01\/because-its-ok-for-catholics-to-praise-sing-dance-and-laugh-music-for-mondays.html","title":{"rendered":"Because It\u2019s OK for Catholics to Praise, Sing, Dance, and Laugh (Music for Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Frank had the conn this weekend (I was in Vermont with Katie), and the results were stellar: I thought I smelled mutiny in the air<\/a>, but in the end the only smell was victory\u2014for everyone but my New England Patriots. Frank\u2019s post on a hymn by St. Romanus<\/a> was a winner, to judge by your comments, and it got him searching for more stuff by St. Romanus. He posted this piece on our FaceBook Fan Page, the Akathist Hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, Ode 1:
\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicnotebook.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catholic Notebook<\/a> posted this historic event: probably the first Gospel concert ever in the Netherlands, recorded in Utrecht, November 1962. <\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Bradford - It's a highway to heaven\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3NG0T8YEh9g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>As we say goodbye to the Christmas season, here\u2019s a classic smile from Straight No Chaser, moving ever so slowly from the sublime to the ridiculous (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/madameevangelista.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/05\/twelve-days-of-christmas\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Madame Evangelista<\/a>):<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28GUU1YbP_E\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28GUU1YbP_E<\/a>\n<p>And arriving full square at the ridiculous, your humble blogger and Catholic husband thought some might enjoy this bit of comedy from Tim Hawkins (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ericsammons.com\/blog\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric Sammons<\/a>). . . . <\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tim Hawkins - Things You Don't Say To Your Wife\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpFD-kgQxnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-3312768977990365515?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Webster\u00a0Frank had the conn this weekend (I was in Vermont with Katie), and the results were stellar: I thought I smelled mutiny in the air, but in the end the only smell was victory\u2014for everyone but my New England Patriots. 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