Great Bishop of Geneva! : I Loved This Song While I Thought It Was Protestant (Pentecostal or Sth) ... · Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Avec vous toujours avec vous ... the Composer
The Brethren and the Moon? Well yes. Casimir Marie Gaudibert (1823–1901) was in the Brethren in Belgium and was also an astronomer after whom a crater on the moon (pictured) is named.
Gaudibert was born into a Roman Catholic family in central France He was converted to Protestantism through a conversation with an itinerant Spanish evangelist.
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The family’s link with the Brethren continued, his son Georges F. Gaudibert (1857–1934) was active in Wallonia (1888–1914) during some of the same time as the Open Brethren workers William J. and Mary J. E. Nock were active in Flanders.
FB : The Brethren and the Moon?
Brethren Archivists and Historians Network 24 mai 2016
https://www.facebook.com/brethrenhistory/photos/a.752008381551005/1065863610165479/?type=3
What's so special about Georges F. Gaudibert?
He composed a song I dearly loved as a child.
The lyrics were written by a pastor called Charles Rochedieu.
Charles - like yesterday's saint Charles Borromeo. Rock-of-God, like the title of Simon Bar Jonah.
The stanza evoking these fishermen of Galilee by a weather allusion continues:
Que son cœur soit la retraite
Où vous trouverez la paix de Dieu
May His heart be the refuge where you find the peace of God ...
So, the composer had Catholic grandparents, the lyricist had a name meaning Pope, the third stanza involves the cult of the Sacred Heart — anything to add?
Yes, the refrain is hammering into the listener that Christ is with His disciples "always, up to the last meeting" ... in context, as a Mercedarian mentioned, the last meeting for many of us will obviously be when we die, and hope the last meeting will also be everlasting. B u t ... in French "always" is spelled like a slurred version of "all days" and the Second Coming is also kind of a last meeting.
I think the logical conclusion of all these hints is, if you love this song, become Catholic.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
XXIII Lord's Day after Pentecost
(Jairus' Daughter)
5.XI.2023
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