Grand-mère

Grand-mère

In thanksgiving for God’s Grace

This piece of music creates a sense of safety and comfort within the knowledge that you are home and all is good due to the gift of the Grace of God. The only response we can give is one of thanksgiving for this very gift.

The Origin

I was quietly and spontaneously playing the piano one afternoon and thinking about God and His goodness. Suddenly a phrase came to me and I continued to play it over and over. I then began to add a light melody above but it was important to keep the phrase going, quietly in the background. The central part of the piece breathes an echo of strength and resilience and, if you listen closely, there is a very short moment of a phrase from a previous piece of music of mine named C’est La Raison. The piece of music is written for Saint Anne who quietly watches over my path in prayer.

The Emotion

This piece of music creates a sense of safety and comfort within the knowledge that you are home and all is good due to the gift of the Grace of God. The only response we can give is one of thanksgiving for this very gift.

The Connection

In the Catholic tradition, the Grand-Mother of Jesus is Saint Anne. In Hebrew her name is Hannah and this translates to gracious / full of grace. In the Catechism it reads that the grace of Jesus Christ is a gratuitous gift that God makes to us of His own life (ref: CC 1999) . It is infused by the Holy Spirit, resting in our soul to heal and sanctify it. This piece of music is written in thanksgiving for God’s Grace. I placed an excerpt from “C’est La Raison” (It is the reason) within the piece on purpose - for the grace of God is the reason I am able to freely respond, desiring to know Him and love Him all the more (ref. CC 2002).

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