Request this New Recording by Catholic Singer-Songwriter Simonetta
Simonetta's newest recording is a wonderful new resource for your family.
Simonetta's "King of the Golden City" is a dramatic reading of a book written by a nun, Mother Mary Loyola of the Bar Convent in York, England in 1925 (with Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat). The book was written as an allegory, which means that it uses fictional characters and events as symbols for real characters and events. In this case, the true meaning of the story tells us of Christ, the Church, the Sacraments, guardian angels, Heaven, Purgatory and hell, among other Catholic truths too numerous to mention. Our family loves the story and so does everyone we know who has ever read it. Simonetta takes this great and touching Catholic story and brings it to life, with her engaging reading and all original music and sound. I know you and you're families are going to love it and that it's going to touch you in the same way that her music does. It comes on two, full-length cassettes, including a new song written by Simonetta just for this recording: "Dilecta".
The book, “King of the Golden City” became an interest while I was finishing up the recording of the album “Keep Your Eyes on the Beloved”. It was a story that I had read to my children and I found so much meaning in it for myself, that I truly fell in love with both the story and Dilecta. I was Dilecta at different times in my life and I could relate to her and her trials and growth. After I decided to record “King of the Golden City”, I began writing, but didn’t finish, a new song. It was only later that I realized this song was born of the book and thus as I recorded the book I was able to finish writing the song, “Dilecta”. Recording the book gave me such an opportunity to be immersed more deeply into its story. I then saw that this book had even more depth to it and I knew there was such a great beauty in this beautiful Catholic story that I wanted to share it with everyone. I hope you enjoy the story as much as I do, and I hope that it deepens your spiritual life as you walk on your journey to some day come to see the “King of the Golden City”. Faith, Hope and Love, Simonetta
