Comments on: Break My Heart ( The Compassion Song) SAS 2/380 https://www.sixmaddens.org/break-my-heart-the-compassion-song-sas-2380/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:18:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin https://www.sixmaddens.org/break-my-heart-the-compassion-song-sas-2380/#comment-75312 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:18:43 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=5904#comment-75312 In reply to MLG.

Thanks for the comment, MLG.
I’ve fixed the broken link to hear her version and redirected it to OCP where you can still purchase the MP3, but infuriatingly not the sheet music.

I’m so glad her song was a source of strength in your dark times. I was thinking of liturgical uses, which are only a part of Christian music.

Looking back at my review, I certainly was a grumpy sod back then.

cheers

Geoff

]]> By: MLG https://www.sixmaddens.org/break-my-heart-the-compassion-song-sas-2380/#comment-75311 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:10:32 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=5904#comment-75311 Jennifer, this song almost carried me through the years when my youngest two children were fighting depression and anxiety, and I was going through cancer. It formed a foundation for centering prayer. It has had a huge “use” to me!

]]> By: Marge Schafer https://www.sixmaddens.org/break-my-heart-the-compassion-song-sas-2380/#comment-56607 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:54:38 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=5904#comment-56607 Jennifer, I have loved this song since I heard you sing it several years ago at an NPM convention. As a cantor at my church, I recently have found out that I have cancer for the third time, and may have to accept that my singing days are over. Can you please share with me a little more about your story-what illness you had, your recovery, etc. This song has really had an impact on me, and I would like to share it, along with your story, with others. Thank you and God bless.

]]> By: Jennifer (Jenna) Martin https://www.sixmaddens.org/break-my-heart-the-compassion-song-sas-2380/#comment-56037 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:25:11 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=5904#comment-56037 My voice is “Breathy” for sure! (2 Corinthians 12:9). My continued thanks to OCP for loving and recording this prayer-song which I wrote in a time I was so physically sick, my body was shutting down and I was beginning to lose amongst other things – the use of my left, then my right hand. I’ll never forget composing “Break My Heart (The Compassion Song)” at my piano realizing my broken (breaking) body was actually a Holy Spirit invitation NOT to look at myself, but to look to a vast sea of others I had previously overlooked. Be careful what you “pray” for. (smile.) That illness and prayer, changed my life, and ushered in years of missions work near and far which still continues. While clearly this song-prayer is not everyone’s cup of tea (and that’s realllllllly ok,) to sing-pray in a breathy or belting way, to love more like Jesus…well, this will never be ‘odd,’ just beautiful. May the peace of Christ be with you, always. -jenna+

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