I have the rare privilage, as editor of the Cor Sanctum website, to be the first to review the latest album. Titled For Life… this CD touches on topics such as God’s love, discerning vocations, the joy of children, standing up to peer pressure, and the consequences of following the crowd.
In my relatively brief association with the band, I have had the opportunity to experience many performances and practice sessions. (It’s good to be the editor.) One of the first songs I heard was a live performance of “If Love Is a Game.” It made me think of all the high school parties I didn’t attend but heard about in homeroom the following Monday. These tales were filled with the excuse, Everyone else was doing it. But if everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? Maybe. “If Love Is a Game” illustrates that a person doesn’t have to fall victuim to peer pressure. A person can not only resist, but also help others to do the right thing as well.
“Man and Wife” was written to illustrate the sanctity of marriage. Marriage isn’t about a big party, a pretty dress, and lots of gifts. It is about a man and woman created equal and opposite being joined to form a single and complete entity who shares in the gift of God’s creation. There is a line that describes Adam’s response to Eve: “Never doubt that God is good!”
God doesn’t need people to make more people. God made dirt, then he made Adam from dirt, then he made Eve out of Adam’s rib. (For the environemtalists out there, that makes the Earth our sister–NOT our mother! She is just as much a creature as we are!) God then gave us the gift of participation in CREATION.
When a child is conceived in the womb, a new soul blinks into existance. This child carries with him or her the potential for greatness. Because of contraception, abortion, and infanticide, we have lost generations of children worldwide. Someone once asked me if I thought there would be another Shakespeare, another Beethoven, another Thomas Jefferson, another Mother Teresa and so on. I replied, Not at the rate we’re going. We pray for solutions to our problems, God sends children with the gifts to solve them, then we kill those children in the womb. That is why our world seems so grim. The doctors and scientists who were given the gifts to cure our epidemics have been murdered. Our artists and musicians who would have uplifted us and given us the hope we needed to make positive changes were harvested for fetal stem-cell research. Our priests, bishops, and religious who would have made our current shortage a far-away imagining were deemed inconvenient and aborted on the way to the grocery store. We casually kill children and believe if we don’t talk about it, it will all be okay.
It isn’t okay.
This CD is one of these special CDs you want to buy two of. One for yourself and one for your favorite fence-sitter. Those PERSONALLY OPPOSED, BUT WHO AM I TO TELL SOMEONE ELSE HOW TO LIVE HER LIFE… Why is killing children, the elderly, and the weak a “family issue”, when robbing banks, stealing cars, and purse-snatching are criminal offenses? Why is stuff more important than the lives of the innocent?
We have the choice to be silent… but it’s wrong.
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