Christ in the Rubble

Prayerful and poignant_x0014_ Glen's text, written after September 11, 2001_x0014_ conveys both pain and hope, seeing in Christ's suffering on the Cross parallels in present-day violence. But with that, as with the Resurrection, hope of present-day redemption, too. Colgan captures this somber but hopeful tone with a free-flowing, syllabic setting with interior cadences in minor keys (including touches of the Phyrgian mode), but always ending with a Picardy third.