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March 3, 2026 - 6:33pm — Kfmiller
The Shepherd of Hermas is an apocryphal writing from the early Church. While ultimately not included in the New Testament, it was often read by early Christians because of its powerful allegorical view of the Church as a woman helping the author through life.
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, double bass
Duration: 2’
One day I saw someone I used to know.
She held all the things I tried to hide.
And, filled with shame,
I turned away
But she said “Don’t let the old sad and darkened days bring you down.
February 17, 2026 - 5:03pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, violin, bass recorder, percussion
Duration: 1’
Em Am D Am Em Bm Am
Every morning through the cold and the dark you’d walk to Him
February 7, 2026 - 3:35pm — Kfmiller
Pray for people outside the Church, especially those who left the faith.
Instrumentation: Voice, two cellos
Duration: 1’30”
Dmaj7
I was trying to follow you
Am7
when you turned off your lights
A♭6 Gmaj7
and took the wrong exit.
Dmaj7
Why would you do that?
January 26, 2026 - 6:22pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, electric guitar, bass guitar, spoken voice, piano
Duration: 1’30”
Saint Oscar Romero (1917-80) served as archbishop of El Salvador from 1977-80. His advocacy for the poor gained him powerful enemies who assassinated him while he was celebrating Mass on March 24, 1980. His killers were never brought to justice or even definitely identified. Romero was canonized by Pope Francis in 2018. The main part of this piece is addressed to Romero’s assassins while underneath a piano accompanies a spoken voice reciting the archbishop’s own words.
To you who pulled the trigger – how does it feel to kill a saint?
January 16, 2026 - 6:14pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, ukulele, percussion
Duration: 1’
Another one’s gone
And I’m no nearer.
I hear You calling but I don’t respond the way I know I should
Please don’t give up on me (2x)
Another one’s here
And I’m no better
I see You waving to me but the distance never seems to close
Please don’t give up on me
Don’t give what I deserve
(sheet music attached)
January 6, 2026 - 6:09pm — Kfmiller
Acts 9:1-22
Instrumentation: Voice, Banjo, Cello
Duration: 2’
D G
About noon I was trav’lin’ under a vicious sun
A7 D
Sweat ran down my face
December 15, 2025 - 5:39pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, organ
Duration: 3’
During the 1930s, at the chapel of the Convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy at Krakow, Poland, Saint Faustina received apparitions from Jesus and Mary that would form the basis of the Divine Mercy movement. Not long after Faustina’s death in 1938, a young Karol Wojtyla – the future Saint John Paul II – would sometimes stop and pray in the same chapel after ending his day working at a nearby quarry. After surviving both the Nazi occupation and Communist control, Wojtyla became pope, and canonized Faustina in 2000.
In that quiet place, she would pray
Just before things erupted again.
December 10, 2025 - 6:06pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar
Duration: 1’30”
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
When it gets tough
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
We call out to You
D♭ G♭ A♭ D♭
So far a- bove
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from loss
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from vi’lence
D♭ G♭ A♭ D♭
Save us from us
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from greed
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from hunger
D♭ G♭ A♭ D♭
Save us from death
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from sin
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us from regret
D♭ G♭ A♭ D♭
Save us from hell
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
When it gets bad
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
We call out to You
D♭ G♭ A♭ D♭
Here by our side
A♭ D♭ E♭ A♭
Save us
(sheet music attached)
November 28, 2025 - 11:05am — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, viola, bass, percussion
Duration: 4’
Gmaj9 Dm7 Am7
Hannah was a strange girl,
Em Cmaj7 Am
prone to staring at the sky
Dm9
and saying things
Am G
November 20, 2025 - 6:23am — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: SATB chorus with brass quintet
Duration: 1’30”
Am7 Em7
When I first saw the city
Am7 Em7
It was covered in haze
November 11, 2025 - 5:29am — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, bass
Duration: 1’
Cmaj7 Gmaj7 D7 Am Cmaj7 Em F G13
If I could, I’d gladly carry the weight I helped create for them.
November 3, 2025 - 5:14pm — Kfmiller
St. Blandine (162-177) was a fifteen-year-old slave who was arrested by Roman authorities for following Christ. When she refused to give up her faith, she was sentenced to death in an arena. When lions refused to attack her, the soldiers inflicted burns on her then allowed her to be trampled to death by bulls. Blandine’s place of martyrdom, the Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules, still stands in Lyon, France – the spot where she died is marked by a simple pillar. Her feast day is June 2.
Instrumentation: Voice, accordion, mandolin
Duration: 2’30”
(NOW)
October 22, 2025 - 3:51pm — Kfmiller
Matthew 26:23
Instrumentation: Voice, cello
Duration: 2’
F#m7
Too many times
Bm A F#m
I find myself standing by where the poison shines
C#m
Too many times
October 22, 2025 - 3:48pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: SATB chorus with percussion section
Duration: 1’30”
Because of You it’s there to start
The unseen order in its place
The elements all aligning
And running with Your energy
Because of You, there’s light and dark
There’s sound and silence, air and space
The water that sustains us all
And the land that rises from it
Only You (x4)
Make it real
Because of You there’s hope for more
The Truth just behind the curtain
From where You shape each piece of it
Help us to see it right again
October 16, 2025 - 4:13am — Kfmiller
MP3 Music Playlist:
- Destruction of the Indies.mp3
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar who, shocked by human rights violations he saw in Central and South America, spent most of his life in an unpopular fight for better conditions for indigenous and enslaved people in the New World. One of his major works, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, helped lead to reform in how these people were treated. His life still provides an example of Catholic social teaching in action, and shows the need for us to stand up today for defenseless victims at all stages of life.
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, bass
Duration: 1’
October 12, 2025 - 11:19am — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: SATB chorus, brass quintet
Duration: 2’30”
G Cm13
You might see Him through the window
G Cm13
Wandering around in the cold
October 5, 2025 - 3:26pm — Kfmiller
Luke 16:26
Instrumentation: Voice, string quartet
Duration: 1’
E♭m6 A♭m
There’s a chasm
E♭m6 A♭m
Between heaven and hell
Emaj13 Bmaj7
No one can cover the distance
October 2, 2025 - 5:48pm — Kfmiller
Instrumentation: Voice, ukulele, cello
Duration: 1’
A capella
I’m a starving mess
Lying in the dirt
I’m eyeing the husks
Ransom me
Dm A7
I’m a splintered wreck
G Dm
Sinking in the depths
Em Dm
September 27, 2025 - 4:21am — Kfmiller
The Martyrs of Compiègne were sixteen French Catholic women who refused to give up the faith despite being imprisoned by the anti-Christian government in 1794 France. Sentenced to death by the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror, they sang hymns on their way to the guillotine. The remaining women continued to sing as they were executed one by one, until the last sang by herself before dying. Their feast day is July 17, the date they were martyred.
Instrumentation: SSAA chorus, harpsichord, bass
Duration: 1’30”
September 23, 2025 - 7:24pm — Kfmiller
St. Mark Ji Tianxang (1834-1900) was a lay Catholic doctor in China. Becoming addicted to opium after an injury, he was denied communion for 30 years but persevered in going to church, finally being allowed to resume receiving the Eucharist. During the Boxer Rebellion, he chose martyrdom rather than renounce his faith. His feast day is July 7.
Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, percussion
Duration: 1’
Dm Am Em7 Dm Dm(maj7) Dm7 Dm6 Dm
Thirty years lost in a haze
Dm Am Em7 Dm6 Dm Dm6 Dsus4 D Dm
All that time caught in a powerful trap
Dm Am Em7 Dm(maj7) Dm6
Kept apart from the Table
Dm Am Em7 Dm(maj7) Dm6 Dsus4 D Dm
For wanting more than wanting what you should.
Cmaj7 F
But brother, we’re not so different
Cmaj7 Asus4
We’re all in snares of our own
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