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📜🔥 NEW SONG DROPS FEB 23: “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)”

On the Feast of St. Polycarp, we’re releasing a Catholic gunslinger ballad about one of the earliest—and hardest—Christian stands in history.

Polycarp was an old bishop of Smyrna, hauled into a stadium, pressed to “just say the words,” and walk away.
Swear by Caesar. Curse Christ. Live.

And he answered with the kind of calm courage the world can’t compute:
“Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and Savior?”

This song isn’t gore. It isn’t shock. It’s witness.
A reminder that empires wear borrowed crowns—and Christ is King even when the crowd is loud.

🎶 “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)” — for Catholics, converts, history nerds, and anyone who needs steel in the spine and peace in the chest.

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It’s the first Friday of Lent… which means somewhere, right now, a well-meaning Catholic is staring at a burger like:

“Lord… surely You didn’t mean this one.”

Yes. He did. 😅

So here’s your cheerful, meatless reminder:
Wait, Don’t Bite That Burger! is my new Peter’s Barque track for everyone who forgets it’s Friday until the drive-thru speaker hits them with, “Would you like bacon on that?”

Lent is basically the Church saying:
“Let’s practice saying no to good things… so we can say yes to the Best Thing.”

And yes—we give up meat because He gave it up for us.
Not because God hates burgers.
Not because fish is morally superior.
But because Friday is a weekly little “remember the Cross.”

Also: Jesus didn’t say IF you pray, fast, and give alms…
He said WHEN.
So maybe today isn’t just “no meat”—maybe it’s also:
✅ an extra prayer
✅ an extra act of generosity
✅ a little extra fasting past “mildly inconvenient”

Not to flex. Not to be seen.
But to be freed.

🎶 “Wait, Don’t Bite That Burger!” — a playful Lenten gut-check for:
cradle Catholics, converts, fish-sandwich veterans, and anyone who just whispered, “Oh no… it is Friday.”

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “#AshTag” — Ash Wednesday isn’t a “holy day of obligation”… but Sunday is.

Yep. That’s the joke.
(And also… kind of the point.)

Ash Wednesday is the day the Church puts a sign on our forehead that basically says:
“I’m not God. I’m dust. I need mercy.”

And every year someone objects:
“Didn’t Jesus say not to fast ‘to be seen’?”

Yes. He did.
And He also said: if you do it for attention, congrats—you got your attention. Reward received. Receipt printed.

But ashes aren’t a flex.
They’re not “look how holy I am.”
They’re “remember you will die… so repent and believe.”

It’s communal. It’s public witness. It’s the family admitting the same thing together:
we’re needy, we’re mortal, and we’re coming home.

So here’s your friendly reminder:
If you showed up for the ashes—awesome.
Now show up for the Resurrection.
Because Sundays aren’t “optional side quests.”
They’re the main event.

🎶 “#AshTag” — a snarky-but-reverent Lent kickoff for converts, cradle Catholics, and anyone who’s ever treated Sunday like “maybe.”

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Just a reminder: I’m not a musician—I’m a catechist trying my best to teach the faith with the tools at my disposal. I’ve been teaching the faith and apologetics and OCIA/RCIA for 20+ years, so the words and heart/soul are mine, but I do create the music digitally, and the art is AI generated.
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