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Jeremy de Satge: Journey Home with Marcus Grodi: Eternal World Television Network (EWTN)
MP3 length: 57mins 37 secs
EWTN is a ministry of a congregation of Poor Clare nuns in Southern Alabama. Their website (www.ewtn.com) is crammed full of good Catholic audio, of which today’s episode of the Journey Home is one. Each week, The Journey Home interviews a convert or a revert to the Catholic faith.
‘He who sings prays twice.’ St Augustine’s words might have been uttered with Jeremy de Satge in mind. After a training in singing at the Trinity College of Music and reception into the Catholic Church, he founded a company that publishes good Church music, both new and old.
He was born into a French family living in England – oddly enough, not Hugenot but one which lost the faith during the nineteenth century. His own first visits to a Catholic Church were made back in France, where he was learning French. From this point he knew he needed to be a Catholic in the Roman Catholic Church.
He also trains the choir of his South London parish – and to some extent the congregation as well. It is generally acknowledged now that Vatican II did not forbid the old Tridentine Mass but instead insisted that the congregation should continue to be able to make its own responses in Latin. Jeremy de Satge’s choir can sing five Plain Chant settings of the Mass, and he ensures that every member of the congregation has a copy of the Mass being sung in front of them, so that they can participate too.
It’s good to hear good Church music, both new and old, being so solidly praised!
(British television viewers can view it on Sky Channel 589 and, for those who do not have Sky, EWTN television and radio is available also on Sky’s Freesat service.)
