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Reminder: the Bible has a whole book that’s basically love poetry.

It’s bolder than you remember...

Flocks of Goats. And Ewes. And Towers girt with battlements...

Dropping Friday, in time to send to the one you love for Valentine's Day... ❤️

Here's a TINY preview... 😏🎶

#WooThemBiblically #short
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📜💧 NEW SONG: “Mud & Mercy (Lourdes)” — God put a spring in the dirt (and hope in the place you’d least expect).

Feb 11 is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, and the story is as Catholic as it gets: a poor, overlooked teenage girl (St. Bernadette), a rocky grotto outside town, a Lady who doesn’t flatter the powerful… and a call to prayer, penance, and the Rosary.

And then the detail that makes everyone roll their eyes—until it doesn’t:
“Go drink and wash.”
So Bernadette scratches at the ground, gets mud, drinks it… people mock… and a spring begins to flow.

Lourdes isn’t a vibe. It’s a reminder: God loves to meet us where we’re low, where we’re hurting, where we’re unimpressive—then He makes something clean and living come out of it anyway.

🎶 “Mud & Mercy (Lourdes)” — a track for anyone who needs hope, anyone carrying suffering, and anyone who’s forgotten that grace doesn’t wait for perfect conditions.

#Catholic #OurLadyOfLourdes #Lourdes #CatholicMusic #PetersBarque #Marian #Rosary #CatholicFaith #WorldDayoftheSick

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Just a reminder: I’m not a musician—I’m a catechist trying my best to teach the faith with the tools I have. I’ve been teaching the faith and apologetics (and OCIA) for 20+ years, so the words and heart are mine, but the music is digitally created and the art is AI-generated.
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This is a very human thing to do and it is not a idolatry.

US Olympic Ice Skater Maxim Naumov lost his parents in that airplane and helicopter crash that happened famously last year. After a wonderful skate performance he held up a picture of his parents and kissed it.

If you are a consistent iconoclast , you need to be decrying his idolatry. But if you're reasonable, you realize he is simply honoring his parents and did not committing any weird form of idolatry in that moment.

And that is exactly what Catholics do with the saints. #short
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📜✨ NEW SONG: “Before the Ink Was Dry” — The Church didn’t come from the Bible. The Bible came from the Church.

Jesus didn’t spend His ministry telling people to sit down and start writing.
He didn’t say, “Write this in remembrance of me.”
He said, “Do this.”

He baptized.
He broke bread.
He forgave sins.
He gave authority.

And He built a Church that could teach, bind and loose, forgive sins, appoint bishops, priests, and deacons — and even gather in councils to make binding decisions — long before a single letter of the New Testament was written.

In fact, the only thing Jesus ever wrote, God let blow away in the sand.

That wasn’t an accident.
That was the plan.

Scripture is inspired.
Scripture is authoritative.
But Scripture was received, not self-generated.

The Church didn’t come from the Bible.
The Bible came from the Church — before the ink was ever dry.

🎶 “Before the Ink Was Dry” is a song about authority before paper, proclamation before publication, and a faith that was lived, taught, and guarded before it was ever bound.

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Just a reminder: I’m not a professional musician — I’m a catechist trying to teach the faith with the tools available. The words and theology are mine; the music and art are digitally created.
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