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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

A Jazzman's Conversion Story
From Notre Dame honors Dave Brubeck:
    Brubeck has said in interviews that he joined the Roman Catholic Church after writing the Mass “To Hope! A Celebration” in 1979. A priest who heard it asked him why he left out “Our Father.” Brubeck said he wasn’t told to include it, so he didn’t add the prayer to the piece.

    But he went on vacation with his family and on the second night he dreamed the “Our Father” prayer, and decided to add it to the Mass. After that, he converted to Catholicism.

    “I joined the Catholic Church, because I felt, somebody’s trying to tell me something,” he said.
Many people, myself among them, have read their way into the Church; Venerable John Henry Newman was said to have written his way into the Church*; Mr. Brubeck composed his way into the Church!

*With An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

[link to article via The Catholic Report]