Room of Tears
This song was on my most recent album, Scarecrow's Lament. I wrote it right after Pope Benedict was elected. I was impressed by his reluctance to be pope yet his obedience to God's call. The room off of the Sistine Chapel where the popes try on their robes before their announcement is called the Room of Tears. There are three different sizes of shoes and cassocks ready for whoever will be the next pope. It is said that each pope breaks into tears when the enormity of the responsibility of apostolic succession hits him.
posted by Russ Rentler, M.D. | 12:10 AM
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Very beautiful. I love mandolin... and Catholic lyrics! You're very talented. Perhaps you're being modest, but you should consider permalinking to your music on your sidebar!
This "Room of Tears" has just brought me to tears. It was the picture of our late, Great, JPII in the hospital toward the end that opened the "flood gates"....
Thank you TJ
Beautiful.
Let us pray for our Papa. And let us be grateful that we have a Papa to run to when we fall...open arms, loving grace, safe from harm, gentle face...watches down the road for the prodigals' return. I'm glad my feet that roamed have found the road to Rome.
susie
Beautiful!
This has always been one of my favourites. Regardless of theological and denominational affilitations, the picture you paint of the servant of Christ has universal appeal for Christians of all stripes. The humble servant receives his commission and falters under the enormous weight of its implications, but only for a moment. The strength of Christ's Holy Spirit helps His servant to regain his composure; an earnest of His sustaining power for the work ahead.
I remain grateful I have this album...thanks and, forgive my slackness but I have honestly NOT forgotten about a certain drawing...
Oh great Onion!
No sweat, please be free. If I get some art from you, great, if not, great too, because it means you are busy doing something else for someone else which is good
God bless
PA said:
"The humble servant receives his commission and falters under the enormous weight of its implications, but only for a moment. The strength of Christ's Holy Spirit helps His servant to regain his composure; an earnest of His sustaining power for the work ahead"
Well spoken. I wish I could write like you!
The honesty of this pope saying he was praying in the Sistine Chapel that he wouldn't be elected~
Then at his age, fully embracing the calling, Whoa!
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