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Fr. Mondor at the anual Blessing of the Waves at Huntington Beach, California. Photo courtesy of Blessing of the Waves
Baptized in the Sea (encore) May 11, 2023
In a soundscape of surf, sand, and spirituality, Father Christian Mondor recounts how he began riding waves at age 70. In water, he finds a metaphor for the holy trinity. And in the surf, he finds a kind of baptism.

Read Fr. Mondor's entry in the Surfing Walk of Fame! 

Christian Mondor, Franciscan priest who lived in Huntington Beach, in Southern California. Fr. Mondor passed away in 2018.




This week's closing music, Surf Shimmy by Kevin MacLeod/Incompetech,
and Pierre Fournier's performance of J. S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 obtained from the   International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library -- are both used under a Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 license.


Additional music by Blue Dot Session.