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This the vocal intro for Mary'Garden. it is actually cut from the background vocals in the main song and used as the introduction.

I wrote this like an Everly Brother's type of song.it is a love song to God.

This is an instrumental I wrote as a teenager when I was learning to play guitar. It was written for guitar but for this CD I used the piano, playing both parts separately as I am not a piano player!

This about St. Joseph, the foster father of our Lord. Though St. Joseph was human and like an other man, he was still so far ahead of all of us in his relationship with God and in how he saw the world through God's eyes, not his own…

This was written as a plea to Mother Mary to help me learn how to live as Our Lord desires. YOU WILL DANCE Mother won't you show me Please come and take my hand I have an invitation but don't know…

This is a deliberately simple song in an attempt to explore the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

This is a prayer of the Catholic tradition which I put to music. the guitar is in drop D tuning.

This is "Michael Row The Boat Ashore" with the lyrics changed to reflect the Church. John Paul II was at the helm when I wrote it.

This a prayer about St. Anthony of Padua by St. Bonaventure. Anthony is my middle name, named after this great saint.

This as written about the way of the world - often so opposite from the way of God, and that we are so far off center today that wrong is seen as right and right seen as wrong.

This is about striving to follow God but continually falling. I have to remind myself that God is concerned more that we try and is not looking for perfection in the way that we often see it.

The Latin of the "Lord have mercy" part of the liturgy. Also included is the prayer given to St. Faustina - "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion..."

This was written after some insight at Mass one Sunday morning. Clothed with thy Graces Clothed with Thy graces Woven by Your Mother Mary Pure, white and spotless This robe I wear Made for me only Morning bells are ringing Sunday…

This a prayer given to St. Gertrude which I put to music a few years ago. If said devoutly it will free 1,000 souls from purgatory. Purgatory is where we go to get "cleaned up" if we aren't quite ready to be with God. Eternal Father, I offer…

Done as much as an exercise in learning GarageBand on my iPhone. The backer is done entierly in GB but had to port it out to my Zoom R16 to record the vocal parts and master. Came out alright though I think.

I wrote this in the late 1980's, inspired by Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre. I love three four time. It is about the weariness of being in this world and the longing to be with God.