The monastery is buzzing with preparations for activities
relating to the upcoming solar eclipse. Sophia Center is sponsoring a retreat
with Aileen O’Donoghue, an organ recital will be performed on Saturday at 2:15
pm in St. Scholastica Chapel, the front parlor poets (who have migrated from
the side porch) will conduct a poetry reading with music in the dining room on
Sunday at 6:45 pm, and a large number of oblates and guests will join us to eat
a picnic lunch and view the eclipse on Monday, August 21. In addition, St.
Scholastica is being bombarded with requests for favorable viewing weather.
One of the songs we plan to sing at the poetry reading is What a Wonderful World, which was first
recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1967. The lyrics include this verse:
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Coincidentally, I recently came across this comment by Louis
Armstrong about the song: “Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but
what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is: see what a wonderful world it
would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the secret….”
We who love God’s creation need to keep working diligently to
give the world a chance by arresting global warming and protecting the air,
water, and soil. Then we will be able to proclaim—not just on occasions of
cosmic events, but every day—“What a wonderful world.”
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