Pleasant Valley Sunday: 06/27/2010

Thursday, July 01, 2010

A New Address

After intermittent posts amounting to a hiatus, as of July 1st, 2010, Pleasant Valley Sunday has moved to new climes, with the same name: Pleasant Valley Sunday.

For the one or two people still looking in, please visit the new location (still under construction).

Prayer To St. Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel,defend us in battle.

Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host - by the Divine Power of God - cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits, who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen

On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said:

'"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power' (Ephesians 6:10). The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel (Revelation 12:7).

Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to St. Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."'

Toward a Definition of Powerpop

“… within rock there are polar extremes that beget their opposites in a never-ending cycle. At one end hard rock: raw, powerful, rebellious, straight off the streets. And at the other, pop: clean, studio-crafted artifice, light, unthreatening. There’s no suggestion of “good” or “bad” here – a choice between the Bee Gees and the MC5 would be meaningless, except in terms of personal taste.

My feeling has always been that the best music comes near the center of the pendulum’s swing, when rock contains strong elements of pop, and pop of rock. Example: Olivia Newton-John is pop and so is Abba. Black Sabbath is rock, and so is the Move. Some are so right-down-the-middle that neither approach predominates: Raspberries, Badfinger, Beatles, Dwight Twilley. For some reason, such artists are my enduring favorites.”

-Greg Shaw: Bomp! No. 16 / Winter 1976/1977

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONETO FIGHT SOCIALISM TODAY?

Prayer To St. Michael the Archangel

Toward a Definition of Powerpop

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About Me

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
TO FIGHT SOCIALISM TODAY?