Upular

Video remix artist Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) created this piece of music using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the animated film Up (directed by Pete Docter). The result is inventive, winsomely listenable and definitively post-modern. What boggles my mind is how Pogo is able to conceptualize and actualize a piece of music from so many disparate musical and (traditionally) non-musical elements. However he does it, I can't get enough of it.



Pogo's take on Mary Poppins titles "Expialidocious."



and Alice and Wonderland.

Saint Patrick's Lorica

Last Sunday The Crossing used an excerpted version of Saint Patrick's Lorica as a corporate prayer. The Lorica is powerful reminder of our dependance God for all things and allows us to humble express a desire to submit ourselves more and more to his care. I thought it would be good to post the Lorica in the blog for use as an ongoing prayer throughout the month.

St Patrick’s Lorica
(St Patrick, ca. 377)

I arise today through a mighty strength,
    the invocation of the Trinity,
through a belief in the Threeness,
through confession of the Oneness
    of the Creator of creation.

I arise today through
    God’s strength to pilot me;
    God’s might to uphold me,
    God’s wisdom to guide me,
    God’s eye to look before me,
    God’s ear to hear me,
    God’s word to speak for me,
    God’s hand to guard me,
    God’s way to lie before me,
    God’s shield to protect me,
    God’s hosts to save me
    from snares of the devil,
    from temptations of vices,
    from every one who desires me ill,
    afar or anear,
    alone or in a multitude.

Christ with me,
    Christ before me,
        Christ behind me
Christ in me,
    Christ beneath me,
        Christ above me

Christ on my right,
    Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
    Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise

Christ in the heart
    of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth
    of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye
    that sees me,
Christ in the ear
    that hears me.

I arise today through a mighty strength,
    the invocation of the Trinity,
through a belief in the Threeness,
through confession of the Oneness
    of the Creator of creation.