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PROject LIFE features 11 songs pertaining to pro-life issues including abortion, adoption, suicide and euthanasia
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Marlene Quaroni
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She was so astonished at the sight of the baby in the mother’s womb, she was moved to write a song.
"I was transfixed and transformed," said Anna Maria McGinty, who received her
inspiration while watching a sonogram while volunteering at a Fort Lauderdale Respect Life facility.
"I had never before seen anything like that film, taken right in the mother s womb. thought about my
nephew and his expectant wife and my stepson and his expectant wife," she said.
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"I jotted down thoughts. A melody played through my mind, words, phrases, rhymes appeared on the paper and a half hour later I had a song. I was crying as I read over what I d written. Then!
realized that the Holy Spirit had used me to write the song. I asked myself, why me? What does he want me to do?"
St. Sebastian choir soloist Sue Schierer suggested McGinty talk to Thm Harney, a St.
Sebastian usher and record producer. McGinty approached Harney at a parish picnic where she told him about her song. After hearing it, Harney and McGinty made plans to record the song. Meanwhile, Harney had even
loftier ideas.
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Photo By Marlene Quaroni/TFC
Holding their new CDs are Reina Sang, pianist; Karen Ross, music writer; Cory Oviedo, music writer and singer; KrIsten DiNonno, singer; Anna
Maria McGinty, singer and writer, Msgr. Patrick McDonnell and Tom Harney, Golden Dome Records producer. In front is Sarah Preston, 7, who sang the child s part.
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"He wanted to make a whole album of pro-life songs," said McGinty. "I was overjoyed, but also overwhelmed. Tom had been producing records for many years and assured me that
although it would take a lot of time, work, love, money and help from above, we could to it. We prayed a lot."
As a result, the group of writers and artists are now trying to save lives through
music and have just released the CD, "Project Life," featuring 11 songs pertaining to pro-life issues including abortion, adoption, suicide and euthanasia.
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"We are happy to be his instruments to proclaim the beauty and sanctity of life," said McGinty, a St. Sebastian choir member and Florida Philharmonic Chorus member.
The first
copies of the pro-life compact disc came off the production line and a celebration took place Oct. 18 at St. Sebastian parish hail marking the event.
Msgr. Patrick McDonnell, St. Sebastian pastor,
blessed the first CD to be produced. It will be sent to Pope John Paul II through Father Frank
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Pavone, national director of the Priests of Life, who wrote the dedication for the
CD.
"We pray that the fruit of this labor will be an end to the culture of death, and a new beginning to
the respect of each and every human life, both born and unborn," Msgr. McDonnell said.
McGinty said that all along she felt the project was divinely inspired.
"I realized that he was doing far more
than helping us out," she said. "He was orchestrating the whole thing. He was pulling everyone and everything together."
For her song, McGinty found someone to sing the part of the mother, Kristen
DiNonno. Through DiNonno, McGinty also found someone for the child s singing part. It turns out that DiNonno s mother was a children s music teacher. Sarah Preston, 7, one of her students, sang the child s part, she
said.
Meanwhile, she said, Harney was working diligently with other Christian writers and artists, some of them nationally-known, such as Jim Robinson and Michael Forrest.
St. Sebastian Parish inspired the
name for the record and publishing company, said McGinty.
"I love our beautiful little church with the bell tower and golden dome, so I suggested ‘Golden Dome and everyone loved it," McGinty said.
The project cost $30,000 to produce, with each compact disc costing $7. They will retail for $12 each, Harney said.
"We ll send them to a church or whoever asks for them, at cost," he said.
"They can use the additional $5 to raise money for pro-life causes."
For information write P.O. Box 460-328, Fort Lauderdale, 33346; or see the Web site: www.goldendomerecords.com.
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