Simple thoughts

Saturday 11th September, 2010

"I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of his people."

Paying vows to God is our way of acknowledging the presence and action of a divine being in our world. We do not pay our vows alone but as a community united by the faith in God we share. We pay our vows by raising the cup of salvation, the ritual fulfilled by Jesus at the Passover meal with his disciples on the night before he died.

St Paul refers to ‘the blessing cup that we bless’ as a ritual act familiar to every Christian community. The tradition remains with us. Each time that the chalice of salvation is raised in the Eucharistic celebration, we pay our vows to God by undertaking to live as his Son showed us how live.

"If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away. "
Henry David Thoreau

Last night, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan honored the composers of a bygone era. The audience was treated to works by Blas Galindo, Jose Pablo Moncayo, and the icon of Mexican cinema, Silvestre Revuletas, whose work defined music in the Golden Age of the Cinema. Guest performer for the evening were Yucateco guitarist Cecilio Perera. Today, this young Meridano studies in Salzburg, Austria, but his resume goes far beyond that. In fact, the Cecilio Perera Resume is stunning! You will certainly want to hear him, along with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan, under the direction of Juan Carlos Lomonaco, pay tribute to composer Manuel Maria Ponce with Concierto del Sur para Guitarra y Orquesta.