Kruisiging met H. Maria en H. Johannes Evangelist – Antonio Da Firenze

You know, sometimes, we’re not prepared for adversity.
When it happens, sometimes, we’re caught short.
We don’t know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.
Sometimes, we don’t know just what to do when adversity takes over.
And I have advice for all of us.
I’ve got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune.
And it sounds like what you’re supposed to say when you have that kind of problem.
It’s called Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. (Cannonball Adderley)

“The mob was heading in, to ransack and loot the apartments of the terrified old men and women. When the troopers arrived, M-16s at the ready, the mob threatened and cursed, but the mob retreated. It had met the one thing that could stop it: force, rooted in justice, backed by courage.”

And there were the brave people of Koreatown who took the worst of the LA riots, but still live the family values we treasure, and who still believe deeply in the American dream.

Friends, in those wonderful 25 weeks, the saddest days were the days of the bloody riot in LA, the worst in our history. But even out of that awful tragedy can come a message of hope.

Hours after the violence ended I visited the Army compound in south LA, where an officer of the 18th Cavalry, that had come to rescue the city, introduced me to two of his troopers. They could not have been 20 years old. He told them to recount their story.

They had come into LA late on the 2nd day, and they walked up a dark street, where the mob had looted and burned every building but one, a convalescent home for the aged. The mob was heading in, to ransack and loot the apartments of the terrified old men and women. When the troopers arrived, M-16s at the ready, the mob threatened and cursed, but the mob retreated. It had met the one thing that could stop it: force, rooted in justice, backed by courage.

Greater love than this hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friend. Here were 19-year-old boys ready to lay down their lives to stop a mob from molesting old people they did not even know. And as they took back the streets of LA, block by block, so we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country.

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It was good for my mother
It was good for my mother
It was good for my mother
Hallelujah, it’s good enough for me

It was good for Paul and Silas
It was good for Paul and Silas
It was good for Paul and Silas
Hallelujah, it’s good enough for me

It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
It was good for the Hebrew children
Hallelujah, it’s good enough for me

It will save you when you are dying
It will save you when you are dying
It will save you when you are dying
Hallelujah, it’s good enough for me

It was good for my old father
It was good for my old father
It was good for my old father
Hallelujah, it’s good enough for me

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican Government’s attempt to secularize the country. The film follows the stories of ordinary people from across the country who choose to stand up for their freedom. Caught up in a full-fledged civil war, they all must decide how far they are willing to go and what they’re willing to risk

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Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men we’ll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Trained to live, off nature’s land
Trained in combat, hand to hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage deep, from the Green Beret

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men we’ll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her this last request

Put silver wings on my son’s chest
Make him one of America’s best
He’ll be a man they’ll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret

Tekst en muziek: Robin Moore en Barry Sadler

Live The Good Life, Darling, Live The Good Life.
Always Say Your Prayers And Kiss Your Children Goodnight.
Live the Good Life, Darling, Fight The Good Fight.
Cry When It Hurts, Don’t Run From Your Pain,
There Is Always Sunshine After The Rain.
Don’t Be Afraid To Try To Live The Good Life.

L’Angelus Band op de FOCUS Conference in Nashville 2011.

FilmSnobbery: The pull between the well-defined parameters of religious tradition and the challenges of a changing secular world is the crux of this moving passionate film adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

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When I closed my eyes so I would not see
My Lord did trouble me
When I let things stand that should not be
My Lord did trouble me
When I held my head too high too proud
My Lord did trouble me
When I raised my voice too little too loud
My Lord did trouble me

Did trouble me
With a word or a sign
With the ringing of the bell in the back of my mind
Did trouble me
Did stir my soul
For to make me human, to make me whole

When I slept too long, slept too deep
My Lord did trouble me
Put a worrisome vision into my sleep
My Lord did trouble me
When I held myself away and apart
My Lord did trouble me
And the tears of my brother did move my heart
My Lord did trouble me

And of this I’m sure, of this I know
My Lord will trouble me
Whatever I do and wherever I go

My Lord will trouble me
In the whisper of the wind, in the rhythm of a song
My Lord will trouble me
To keep me on the path where I belong
My Lord will trouble me