Making Memory of Mary

Happy Birthday Mama Mary! I Love You! A Spiritual Portrait of Mary (taken from St. John Damascene’s Homily on her Birth) Today the root of Jesse has produced its shoot: she will bring forth a divine flower for the world… Today, the Creator of all things, God The Word, composes a new book: a book issuing from the heart of his Father and written by the Holy Spirit, who is the tongue of God… O daughter of King David and Mother of God, the universal King, O divine and living object whose beauty has charmed God the Creator, your whole soul is completely to God’s action and attentive to God alone. All your desires are centered only on what merits to be sought and worthy of of love. You will have a life superior to nature —but not for your own sake. For it has not been created for you but has entirely been consecrated to God, who has introduced you into the world to help bring about our salvation in fulfillment of his plan —the Incarnation of his Son and the Divinization of the human race. Your heart will find nourishment in the words of God they will make you fruitful like the fertile olive tree in the house of God; like the tree planted in the living waters of the Spirit, like the tree of life that has yielded fruit in due time —the Incarnate God who is the life of all things. Your eyes will ever be turned toward the Lord, toward the eternal and inaccessible light. Your ears will ever be attentive to the Divine words and the sounds of the harp of the Spirit, through …
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Dionne Warwick’s 1963 “Anyone Who Had A Heart” hit the Billboard Top Ten in January 1964 and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune was a crossover smash and hit #6 on the Billboard R&B Chart and #2 on the Billboard AC Chart. The tune was also a Top 10 hit in Australia, Belgium, Canada and South Africa. Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the tune was presented to Dionne in unfinished form while she, Hal and Burt were rehearsing in Burt’s Manhattan apartment for a recording session a few days hence at Bell Sound. Bacharach had finished the score but Hal had written only about a third of the lyric and was struggling with what Hal regarded a bad accent in the sixth line of the first stanza, which he could not resolve. Burt played a snippet of the tune for Dionne, and she fell in love with the tune and begged Hal to finish it. Hal, according to his wonderful 1968 book “What the World Needs Now and Other Love Lyrics”, went to Burt’s bedroom while Burt and Dionne rehearsed in the living room and finished the lyric. The tune was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in Manhattan in November 1963, days after the assassination of JFK, in the same session as Bacharach and David’s “Walk On By” and “In the Land of Make Believe”. Rumor has it Warwick nailed the tune in only one take. Cilla Black, a top female recording artist in the Uk but little known outside the UK recorded a cover version released in the UK in January 1964 before Scepter licensee Pye records could release …