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It’s all about Jesus for visiting singer-songwriter and performer
Youth gather to adore Him
Bishop Donald Sproxton elevates the monstrance during Benediction and Eucharistic Adoration at Notre Dame University on August 15. Visiting US singer-songwriter Steve Angrisano, below, is joined on stage by Fr Mark Payton and CYM’s Anita Parker. PHOTOS: MICHAEL CONNELLY
MUSIC, it is sometimes said, cuts across all boundaries. That’s one reason why hundreds of Notre Dame university students and youth from around Perth converged on the University’s Drill Hall in Mouat Street, Fremantle, on the Feast of the Assumption to hear American Catholic singer Steve Angrisano. Angrisano, whose music has surged in popularity in the last decade as an alternative to the bland fare of pop culture, has performed at World Youth Days and is now a leading fixture in the faith music scene; he was in Perth to lend a hand to Catholic Youth Ministry’s ongoing promotion of the Year of Grace. But if it was a concert aimed at the young, it was not like any of the normal kind carefully calculated by
Instead, Angrisano’s appearance in the jointly hosted evening between Notre Dame and CYM was aimed at marking the Year of
But if it was a concert aimed at the young, it wasn’t like any you normally hear about. How many these days feature Eucharistic Adoration? promoters to draw youth and their money – after all, most concerts of the kind youth flock to these days
don’t begin with Mass celebrated by a Catholic bishop. Nor do they feature Eucharistic Adoration.
Grace called by Australia’s bishops when in Rome during their ad limina visit last October, and helping young people hear a message largely absent from contemporary
culture: the importance of contemplating the face of Christ. The Mass, celebrated for the solemnity of the Assumption, featured the Angrisano-composed ‘Mass of a Joyful Heart’ music setting, supported by parish musicians from Bateman and Myaree youth music ministries. After Mass concelebrated by Bishop Donald Sproxton and other Perth clergy, Angrisano set himself the task of helping to lead participants in a journey from an inward-looking focus on self to experiencing an outward-looking, Christ-focused contemplation. Bishop Sproxton’s homily honed in on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Assumption, outlining how Marian devotion deepens our relationship with Christ. Please turn to Page 6