Name That Hymntune!

Our parish school, like many schools around the Diocese, conducts or participates in an annual Walk-a-Thon to raise much-needed funds.  The whole shebang begins with a motivational assembly, which basically riles up the kids to thump the tub for the event.

As one component of the assembly, Your Rev'd Blogger was asked to come up with a dozen or so hymns and clues for people to guess those hymns.  When prompted, he will play the first notes of the hymn for a student to

Name That Hymntune!

...and win some sort of fabulous prize, I guess.  It's all about the fabulous prizes.

Are you, patient reader, more song-savvy than a 5th grader?  Without googling or flipping through your hymnal, riddle me this:

"Sometimes it causes me to tremble,” but above all Jesus’ death and resurrection cause us to be grateful—especially when we sing this hymn during Lent.

Playing for God on “glad tambourines” and letting “your trumpet sound” are two ways this song tells us to live by its title.

Whether He is received by “Gentile or Jew, servant or free,” the Lord’s Eucharistic Presence unites the singers of this song.

That's only a sampling of the selections being asked of our students this morning.  Feel free to leave a comment below if you dare to guess.

Over The Waves, Further Revisited

Yeah, so you might have noticed A LOT different about "Father Zelonis' Corner."

Like its author, this blog is "a work in progress."  Before long it might get reinvented more than Cher.

The present incarnation is basically the renaming of FZC.  It also replaces "The Shipwrack-Harvest" that began only a couple of days ago with a distinct appearance and purpose.  The new name has carried over, and the purpose of SH (reflection on Hopkins' poetry) also carries over as an occasional feature.

Simplification is the intended purpose.  Things are getting back into gear at Holy Guardian Angels: the new school year, PREP, RCIA, plus most of the activities of our various parish organizations.  Not much time remains for fiddling with the infrastructure of my online activity.

For the past several weeks I have been clarifying my goals for this activity.  The most salient:

• To Evangelize and Catechize according to the Heart and Mind of Christ and the Catholic Church;
• To feature good authors and musicians;
• To engage in wholesome self-expression in matters light and grave

I enjoin my august readership--all dozen or so of you, and the legion yet to come--to assist me in these goals by:

• Asking questions about the Faith
• Suggesting topics to be treated
• Commenting constructively on posts
• Sending worthwhile leads to shipwrackharvest@gmail.com

Let us pray for each other, so that the voyage/tillage of the Shipwrack-Harvest might be effective "for our good, and for the good of all His holy Church."

A Plug For Unplugging

Jennifer Fulwiler speaks of a fellow journalist's fast from the Internet.  You can read about how the experiment is going and how he appreciates his redirected time and mental energy.

A Man of Letters

“An Experiment in Catholic Old Media” tells of Ryan Charles Trusell, who still believes in snail mail, but believes all the more in Providence.  Thanks to The Anchoress, by way of a reader, for this lead.