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<\/a><\/div>\nAs regular readers know, I\u2019ve shared music on the blog practically since Webster invited me aboard. I don\u2019t recall how it happened, but I remember when he posted a YouTube<\/i> video in a post and I thought, \u201cwow, that is cool. I wonder if Webster would let me post some music videos too?\u201d We did a post together in January of last year<\/a>, and by then the fledgling project got off the ground in earnest. So why am I boring all of you about this late on Tuesday night? Because I just found out about a book that I simply must read, and I discovered a blog that I\u2019ve just added to the \u201cCool Links\u201d list and, \u00e0 la Mark Shea at his Dark Lordly best, I will command that you all go investigate it at once. First the book.<\/p>\n No, I haven\u2019t read it! I only just found out about it. It\u2019s written by a fellow named David Nantais, a guy with a resume about a mile wide and two miles deep. David thought he wanted to be a Jesuit priest, see, and he studied at the seminary preparing to follow that vocation. He got married back in 2008 and, well, go look at his CV<\/a> for all the details.<\/p>\n I saw a brief sketch of a review<\/a> on his recently published book entitled Rock-A My Soul.<\/a><\/i> Here\u2019s what Fr. James Martin, SJ (author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything<\/i>) had to say about the author and the book,<\/p>\n David Nantais is, hands down, one of the best young writers on Christian spirituality: inviting, inventive, and insightful. In Rock-a My Soul<\/b>, he offers a fascinating look at how rock music, often thought to be a threat to faith, can actually support and nourish one\u2019s spiritual life. If you\u2019re a music fan, Nantais, a rock musician himself, will show you how the music you love can draw you closer to God. If you\u2019re a believer, Nantais will serve as an experienced guide to modes of experiencing God that you might never have considered. And if you\u2019re a music fan and a believer, well, then this book will, as the band said, rock you.<\/i><\/p>\n Operators are standing-by, order your copy today!<\/a> This is exciting news for me, because I love rock, and of course, I love the Rock of our Faith even more. As my MfM<\/i> posts will attest, I\u2019ve always seen the complimentarity between the yearning of human beings, and how our deepest longings are often reflected in contemporary music. Jesus, indeed, goes mainstream through music<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now, here is your next assignment me hearties: go check out this neat blog called Rock and Theology<\/i> that I just happened upon. I would tell you more about it, but I\u2019m too busy letting you know that it even exists to have spent much time there myself. It all started when,<\/p>\n a theologian friend sent me a link from \u201cWhispers in the Loggia,\u201d to a story about Notker Wolf<\/a>, then the head of the Benedictines, a Catholic religious order. There was Wolf, strumming an electric guitar with right hand, left hand a-swashing the neck forth and back, face full of focus and a drum kit off his right shoulder. Oh, yes, that\u2019s definitely an atypically liturgical shade of concert orange sidelight shining onto him and the kit, as well. And that cowl\u2014so exceedingly metal! As a cohabitor of Catholicism, rock music, and theology, as a devotee of loud sounds shaken out of guitars under auburn lights, I could hardly breathe. What face of rock was this? I felt in this picture a strange, uncontrollable, entrancing, and consoling beckoning<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whaat? The head of the Benedictines, Dom Notker Wolf is\/was a rocker<\/i>?! That alone is just another reason why I am Catholic. Then I found out that the blog is part of a project sponsored in part by Fordham University, etc, etc, and there is a boatload of contributors<\/a>, including David Nantais, all of which have advanced degrees in music and are rockers in their spare time. <\/p>\n Look, I\u2019d love to chat about this with you some more, but I have to head on over to Rock and Theology<\/a> for a little bit of spiritual rock n\u2019 roll therapy. Feel free to join me!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G-Z5gD6dp5A&feature=related<\/a>\n As regular readers know, I\u2019ve shared music on the blog practically since Webster invited me aboard. I don\u2019t recall how it happened, but I remember when he posted a YouTube video in a post and I thought, \u201cwow, that is cool. I wonder if Webster would let me post some music videos too?\u201d We did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[30,21],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-moviestv","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Blah, blah, blah, Frank\u2026whoop-de-do, right? Music for Mondays,<\/i> big deal. I know, I know, I go over the top with it sometimes, and other times I barely even add liner notes. But the thing is, though I\u2019m not gifted with musical ability myself, I really enjoy music, and respect it as an artform. And though the MfM<\/i> posts published here run the gamut from Chant to Classical, the bulk of my posts have been written around popular music. And for the most part, rock n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n