Triumphant Music

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Friends :),

For someone with B.P.D., it becomes very easy to lose your sense of self amidst the ever-shifting moral chaos of the modern world. Things seem to be falling into a great darkness; not only for me, but for many brothers and sisters and friends in this beautiful world. The emptiness of Satan’s promises and the long shadows of human history sometimes get to me personally. What I need is the triumph of the holy Cross, the victory of Easter, ever on my mind.

Can anyone recommend famous, grand, triumphant, victorious music? I don’t mean any sort of mysterious (if beautiful) chant, but hymns and great songs. Think of swelling organs, choirs of 40-100 people, trumpets, timpani, and all the rest. 🙂 Here are a few that come to mind, which soothe my sorrows and bring light to my worried mind:

Monks’ setting of Wesley’s Jesus Christ is risen today

Händel’s Alleluia from the Messiah

Parry’s setting of Jerusalem

Stanford’s absolutely moving setting of the Te Deum

What else makes you feel resurrected with Christ our Lord in darker days? 🙂
 
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Friends :),

For someone with B.P.D., it becomes very easy to lose your sense of self amidst the ever-shifting moral chaos of the modern world. Things seem to be falling into a great darkness; not only for me, but for many brothers and sisters and friends in this beautiful world. The emptiness of Satan’s promises and the long shadows of human history sometimes get to me personally. What I need is the triumph of the holy Cross, the victory of Easter, ever on my mind.

Can anyone recommend famous, grand, triumphant, victorious music? I don’t mean any sort of mysterious (if beautiful) chant, but hymns and great songs. Think of swelling organs, choirs of 40-100 people, trumpets, timpani, and all the rest. 🙂 Here are a few that come to mind, which soothe my sorrows and bring light to my worried mind:

Monks’ setting of Wesley’s Jesus Christ is risen today

Händel’s Alleluia from the Messiah

Parry’s setting of Jerusalem

Stanford’s absolutely moving setting of the Te Deum

What else makes you feel resurrected with Christ our Lord in darker days? 🙂
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Funny, I was going to reccomend ‘Jerusalem’! I find it sad that not many (if any) Catholic Churches sing Onward Christian Soldier, that seems like a beautiful song for this Catholic generation. However, I enjoy:

Onward Christian Soldier by - oddly enough - the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
youtube.com/watch?v=O9DHgnKeAxo

Hail Redeemer, King Divine by Charles Rigby and Fr. Patrick Brennan C.Ss.R
youtube.com/watch?v=1drtim65OA0

O Sacred Heart by R.R. Terry and F. Stanfield
youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ejipe3rVE

The Lourdes Hymn
youtube.com/watch?v=Dcs6WPjZi0k

Marcia Trionfale by Giuseppe Verdi, which I believe is similar to the anthem used by Blessed Pope Pius IX during his return to Rome after a rebellion
youtube.com/watch?v=AssDQbaIP_I

And of course - Inno e Marcia Pontificale
youtube.com/watch?v=gZH9ohddd4M

Sadly, those seem rather tame and gentle (save the first one), but for me its enough, as they invoke great images of majesty and victory.
 
 
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