Today at the basilica Monday mass like many weeks, our recessional hymn was “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy.” I really love this hymn and have been wanting to adapt it into a contemporary format.

I’ve posted in the past about some curious word changes in popular Christmas hymns and carols. This, from 2010: Visiting a parish in Maryland this weekend, I was surprised that the recessional hymn at ...

This is our recessional this weekend—a fitting segue into next week and Palm Sunday, and an appropriate coda to the scripture readings this 5th Sunday of Lent.