{"id":1061,"date":"2008-04-20T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2008\/04\/20\/top-names-entertain-new-york-mass-crowd\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T18:10:34","slug":"top-names-entertain-new-york-mass-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2008\/04\/20\/top-names-entertain-new-york-mass-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Names Entertain New York Mass Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York&#8211;Jos\u00e9 Feliciano, Stephanie Mills, the Harlem Gospel Choir and Harry Connick, Jr. were among the entertainers warming up the mass crowd for the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People ask if I am a practicing Catholic,&#8221; said Connick, &#8220;Well you can&#8217;t practice better than this, I am playing for the Pope today.&#8221; Kim Burrell and Lucian Barbarin and the Harry Connick Orchestra were also part of that set. It was medley of jazz gospel set in honor of the Papal Mass.<\/p>\n<p>A liturgical dance followed featuring dancers as angels holding mobiles of seagulls while singing angelic tones. This immediately preceeded preparations for the mass.<\/p>\n<p>For this Catholic, it was heartening to see such effort in celebration of the visit of the Pope. In a time where, the entertainment industry is often portrayed as exclusively anti-Catholic, such a display of great talent reveals that this just is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Among the tunes Feliciano sang was Lee Greenwood&#8217;s God Bless the USA.  Stephanie Mills and the Harlem gospel choir followed with traditional style, classic Gospel tunes.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webtvcn.com\">webtvcn<\/a>, technology in the service of the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York&#8211;Jos\u00e9 Feliciano, Stephanie Mills, the Harlem Gospel Choir and Harry Connick, Jr. were among the entertainers warming up the mass crowd for the Pope. &#8220;People ask if I am a practicing Catholic,&#8221; said Connick, &#8220;Well you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9791],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}