Nixon Night

Sunday night Colleen Nixon performed sacred music at St. John’s Basilica in Des Moines.  We are so blessed to have the recording, though it cannot compare to the electricity, spirit and acoustics of the live experience.

It was not a concert.  It was an event, a happening, an eruption of beauty or, as one woman said to me afterward, it was like being ‘washed in prayer.’  Imagine a church of such exquisite color and design cupping within it sonorous music that seeped through an apparent tear in heaven’s seam.

She will have a final musical Event in town Wednesday evening at St. Francis, where she will also mix her jazz music in.

She and her husband, with their baby, have launched a national and nomadic ministry to young people that blends song and witness to the Gospel of chaste love and faithful married life.

This is what the New Evangelization is about – a vivacious, effervescent, off-beat and creative proclamation of Truth’s splendor that engages the heart of culture and seduces it into believing Christ is the supremely desirable One.

Thank you Colleen for echoing the voice of the Word who, in the beginning, sang the cosmos into being.