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matrixrefugeeLong day at work today, but oddly enough, there weren't any crazies. Not a one. I think they were all behaving, on account of today being Good Friday.
This evening, my folks and I watched an utterly *excellent* documentary on PBS tonight: "The Face: The Life of Jesus in Art", a two part special done by the United States Catholic Conference's Communications Campaign. Wow! It covers everything from catacomb paintings to Byzantine icons to Grunewald's Gothic "Crucifixion", to ...Andy Warhol's really odd painting where it looked like he took a paint-by-number of Leonardo's "Last Supper" and added the Dove soap logo (the Holy Spirit?) and the General Electric logo (the Light of the World?). My mom had an odd look on her face at that one, so I said, "Okay... I guess that counts as inculturation."
I also spent some time re-rereading Stephen Faller's "The Passion of Neo" ::Points to her previous entry:: and meditating on it, this while listening to Tracks 13 ("Neodammerung") and 14 ("Why, Mr. Anderson?") on the "Revolutions" soundtrack. I even took another look at the lyrics for the choral parts on those cuts (when they're singing words, and not just sustained "aah's"). And these words, from the Upanisads, one of the sacred texts of Hinduism, jumped out at me:
"Asato ma sad gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya."
("From delusion, lead me to Truth.
From darkness, lead me to Light.
From death, lead me to Immortality.")
I think, from now on, I'm going to incorporate that into my daily prayers. Anyone can pray these words to whatever Higher Power they acknowledge, really.
Oddly enough, on the soundtrack, at the end of "Why, Mr. Anderson?", Don Davis sets these words to the melody of the Dies Irae, from the Gregorian chant for the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead. So he's setting a Hinduist text to Catholic Christian music.
This evening, my folks and I watched an utterly *excellent* documentary on PBS tonight: "The Face: The Life of Jesus in Art", a two part special done by the United States Catholic Conference's Communications Campaign. Wow! It covers everything from catacomb paintings to Byzantine icons to Grunewald's Gothic "Crucifixion", to ...Andy Warhol's really odd painting where it looked like he took a paint-by-number of Leonardo's "Last Supper" and added the Dove soap logo (the Holy Spirit?) and the General Electric logo (the Light of the World?). My mom had an odd look on her face at that one, so I said, "Okay... I guess that counts as inculturation."
I also spent some time re-rereading Stephen Faller's "The Passion of Neo" ::Points to her previous entry:: and meditating on it, this while listening to Tracks 13 ("Neodammerung") and 14 ("Why, Mr. Anderson?") on the "Revolutions" soundtrack. I even took another look at the lyrics for the choral parts on those cuts (when they're singing words, and not just sustained "aah's"). And these words, from the Upanisads, one of the sacred texts of Hinduism, jumped out at me:
"Asato ma sad gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya."
("From delusion, lead me to Truth.
From darkness, lead me to Light.
From death, lead me to Immortality.")
I think, from now on, I'm going to incorporate that into my daily prayers. Anyone can pray these words to whatever Higher Power they acknowledge, really.
Oddly enough, on the soundtrack, at the end of "Why, Mr. Anderson?", Don Davis sets these words to the melody of the Dies Irae, from the Gregorian chant for the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead. So he's setting a Hinduist text to Catholic Christian music.