Easter is a celebration of hope triumphing in the face of despair. This year, it\u2019s also an opportunity to grow in faith during a spiritually challenging time. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what inspired Fr. Mark Baumgarten, of the Archdiocese of Perth in Western Australia, to write the song \u201cEaster Sunday Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The musician turned priest says it was during the first series of lockdowns that he noticed the connection between the challenges of the pandemic and the story of Easter. <\/p>\n
FR. MARK BAUMGARTEN \u201cIt\u2019s Easter Sunday morning but the sun has yet to rise. If the Lord is up to something he\u2019s tremendously disguised.\u201d<\/p>\n The song conveys the sense of worry and confusion shared around the world during the early stages of the pandemic. Only to suggest that hope is waiting just over the horizon.<\/p>\n For Fr. Mark, music is more than storytelling. It\u2019s a way to capture life\u2019s powerful moments.<\/p>\n FR. MARK BAUMGARTEN \u201cThere\u2019s light on the horizon, the atmosphere is clean. On Easter Sunday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n It can be difficult to articulate what it was like living through the lockdowns. An experience that may only be able to be expressed through music. <\/p>\n FR. MARK BAUMGARTEN \u201cEaster Sunday Morning\u201d is the first single from Fr. Mark\u2019s upcoming album. It's also a song to console and uplift those facing challenges this Easter season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Justin McLellan<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 2, 2021. \u201cEaster Sunday Morning\u201d, by Fr Mark Baumgarten, relates the challenges of the pandemic to the story of the Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gkfkiU5Xzng","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcantanteaustraliaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcantanteaustraliaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Priest and Musician
\n\u201cIt was just during Holy Week and I was starting to be struck by the similarities between us being stuck behind closed doors in a sense, and with some of the, I guess you could say, bad headlines of recent years, and we\u2019ve come to a bit of a pounding in some ways, that there are some parallels with the apostles after the Crucifixion when they\u2019re kind of behind locked doors with their heads hung low.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Priest and Musician
\n\u201cIf there\u2019s an event or something going on in my life that\u2019s fairly prominent, I'll think \u2018there\u2019s a song in this\u2019 and I\u2019ll try to capture it down, a little bit like how you\u2019d take a photo or journal to capture a memory or an emotion, that songwriting became something a bit like that for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Priest and Musician
\n\u201cWe are body and soul and so those things that stir our bodies and our minds and our souls\u2014music is a bit of an intersection of that. Where you can have both lyrics as well as sometimes mysterious properties that the musical melodies and the chords can have on us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n