Songs of Passion

Just about every afternoon and evening there are “Youth Festival” events taking place throughout the greater Sydney area. They included forums and collquia, concerts and film screenings, visual arts exhibits, and more. For many people these events are the highlight of WYD. A lot of the concerts are given by people of national and international standing. People like Matt Maher and Fr. Stan Fortuno were among them. On Wednesday evening the Passionist parish of St. Brigid hosted an event entitled, “Songs of Passion”. Each of the various Passionist pilgrim groups, supplemented by both the parish grade school and high school, presented songs and dances from their home countries around the theme of the Passion of Christ. The United States group aquitted itself well with two songs and provided the back-up singers for a Passionist priest from Melbourne who is also a song-writer. I must admit I was a bit jealous. I sat in the pew and listened and watched. There are times when I wish I had the talent to have been up there performing as well.