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Auditio Divina: Sacred Listening With Heart
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Katie McAllister and Tony Pichler explore the connection between prayer and popular song.
Drawing upon the steps of Lectio Divina, Auditio Divina brings this ancient prayer practice into today’s world. It breaks open the lyrics of modern songs to help individuals listen with heart.
Auditio Divina engages the listening senses to discover the sacredness in an ordinary song. The goal is to bring new meaning to the songs that have been listened to for years.
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I've Been This Way Before
Mar 2700:21:30Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "I've Been This Way Before" by Kate Hudson from the movie Song Sung Blue.Lyrics:I've seen the lightAnd I've seen the flameAnd I've been this way beforeAnd I'm sure to be this way again
Transcribe →In Your Eyes
Jul 1900:21:45Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony are back in the studio, praying with "In Your Eyes" by Peter GabrielLyrics:Love, I don't like to see so much painSo much wasted and this momentKeeps slipping awayI get so tired workingSo hard for our survivalI look to the time with youTo keep me awake and aliveAnd all my instincts they returnAnd the grand façade, so soon will burnWithout a noise, without my prideI reach out from the insideIn your eyes (Your eyes)(Your eyes) In your eyes(In your eyes) The light, the heat(Your eyes) I am complete(In your eyes) I see the doorwayTo a thousand churches(In your eyes) The resolution(Your eyes) Of all the fruitless searchesOh, I see the light and the heat(In your eyes)(Your eyes) Oh, I wanna be that complete(In your eyes)I wanna touch the lightThe heat I see in your eyesIn your eyes(In your eyes)(In your eyes) Ooh
Transcribe →Frank For Frank - My Way by Frank Sinatra for Pope Francis
Apr 27, 202500:23:01Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony present a special episode “Frank for Frank” featuring a four-step reflective process of “My Way” by Frank Sinatra in honor of Pope Francis.Lyrics:I've loved, I've laughed and criedI've had my fill, my share of losingAnd now, as tears subsideI find it all so amusingTo think I did all thatAnd may I say, not in a shy wayOh, no, oh, no, not meI did it my way
Transcribe →Live Forever
Apr 19, 202500:17:25Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Live Forever" by Willie Nelson for Easter Sunday.Lyrics:I'm gonna live foreverI'm gonna cross that riverI'm gonna catch tomorrow nowYou're gonna wanna hold meJust like I always told youYou're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Transcribe →For What It's Worth
Apr 13, 202500:20:19Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield for Palm Sunday.Lyrics:What a field day for the heatA thousand people in the streetSinging songs and they carrying signsMostly say, "Hooray for our side"It's time we stopHey, what's that sound?Everybody look, what's going down?
Transcribe →Landslide
Apr 5, 202500:23:41Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Landslide" by Fleetwood Macfor the Fifth Sunday of Lent.Lyrics:Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?Can the child within my heart rise above?Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?Can I handle the seasons of my life?Well, I've been 'fraid of changin''Cause I've built my life around youBut time makes you bolderEven children get olderAnd I'm gettin' older, too
Transcribe →Across the Universe
Mar 29, 202500:20:44Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Across the Universe" by The Beatles for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.Lyrics:Sounds of laughter, shades of lifeAre ringing through my open earsInciting and inviting meLimitless, undying loveWhich shines around me like a million sunsIt calls me on and on across the universeJai Guru Deva, OmNothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my world
Transcribe →Give Me Just a Little More Time
Mar 22, 202500:18:46Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Give Me Just a Little More Time" by Chairmen of the Boardfor the Third Sunday of Lent.Lyrics:Life's too short to make a mistakeLet's think of each other and hesitateYoung and impatient we may beThere's no need to act foolishlyIf we part, our hearts won't forget itYears from now we'll surely regret itGive me just a little more time And our love will surely grow Give me just a little more timeAnd our love will surely grow
Transcribe →Solsbury Hill
Mar 15, 202500:18:43Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel for the second Sunday of Lent.Lyrics:Climbing up on Solsbury HillI could see the city lightWind was blowing, time stood stillEagle flew out of the nightHe was something to observeCame in close, I heard a voiceStanding, stretching every nerveI had to listen, had no choiceI did not believe the informationJust had to trust imaginationMy heart going "Boom-boom-boom""Son, " he said"Grab your things, I've come to take you home"Hey, back home
Transcribe →Long Black Train
Mar 8, 202500:19:41Tap to summarizeKatie and Tony break open the song "Long Black Train" by Josh Turner for the first Sunday of Lent.Lyrics:Well, I can hear the whistle from a mile awayIt sounds so good but I must stay awayThat train is a beauty, makin' everybody stareBut its only destination is the middle of nowhereBut you know there's victory in the Lord, I sayVictory in the LordCling to the Father and His Holy nameAnd don't go ridin' on that long black train
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