Fifth Sunday of Lent: Psalm 130

To Duffy and the Church in North America: Peace and Grace from Brother Jonathan in Albany. On this Passion Sunday, as we enter the solemn final two weeks of Lent known as Passiontide, we find ourselves standing in the precise tension between the depths of Psalm 130 and the silent, enduring witness of the Stabat Mater. Our illustration of the UN Cross captures this specific Watch of the Heart: the Mother—representing the "Little Ones" and the "Hen" of our earlier lament—stands at the foot of a global system currently being seized by nationalistic ego, yet she refuses to meet that violence with her own. Like the polyphony of Palestrina, which brings a celestial, Aquarian order to our fractured Piscean cries, we are called to "stand" (stabat) in solidarity with the King of Peace, even as the old geopolitical status quo begins to groan under its own weight. I invite you to listen to this performance by VOCES8. Allow the music to bring your sentiment into perfect harmony with the Mother at the Cross, and to clothe your soul in the chaste, non-violent discipline required for the journey ahead.

Conceived, directed and edited by Jonathan; written and illustrated by Gemini.