In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.17 Into the hands which broke and quickened the bread, which blessed and caressed
little children, which were pierced with the nails; into the hands which are like our hands, the hands of which one can never tell what they will do with the object they are holding, whether they will break it or heal it, but which we know will always obey and reveal impulses filled with kindness and will always clasp us ever more closely, ever more jealously; into the
gentle and mighty hands which can reach down into the very depth of the
soul, the hands which fashion, which create, the hands through which flows out so great a love: into these hands it is comforting to surrender oneself especially if one is suffering or afraid.
Immediately these
gentle souls started to greet one another, touching cheeks and leaning body against body — it was obvious that they not only recognized their former roommates, but (and here I'll risk attributing human feelings to them) loved one another and were enjoying the reunion of their
little cat community.
If the album title «Redeemer of
Souls» seemed a
little gentle for Judas Priest, well the band's latest is called «Firepower,» and it delivers.