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Padre Irala

Casimiro Abdon Irala Arguello, SJ (born 4 March 1936), known as Padre Irala, is a Paraguayan-Brazilian Jesuit priest, writer, musician and songwriter.

Padre Irala
Personal
Born
Casimiro Abdon Irala Arguello

4 March 1936
Asunción, Paraguay
ReligionRoman Catholicism
NationalityParaguayan
Military service
RankPriest
Organization
OrderSJ
Senior posting
Ordination14 December 1968[1][2]
Padre Irala
GenresReligious music
Occupation(s)singer, composer
InstrumentClassical guitar
Years active1969 – present
LabelsPaulinas COMEP

Biography

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His father was a musician and taught him the first notes to the guitar. His father, Don Abdón Irala, composed the first mass sung in Guarani, in the decade of 1960.[3] Casimiro participated early in the Catholic Church, having been a participant in Catholic Action. He entered in the Society of Jesus to be a Jesuit at the age of 20, in 1956, leaving his engineering career.[1] He studied theology in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, being ordained priest at age 33, on 14 December 1968 in Asunción, Paraguay. On 27 December 2018, Irala celebrated the Golden Jubilee in the Capela Santo Inácio, located in the Antônio Vieira College.[4]

Career

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Irala is the author of one of the most consecrated songs in the Catholic medium, the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi present in the vinyl compact of four songs "Irala Canta" (May 1968).[5] In 2008 Father Irala re-recorded the famous song at an OPA event.[6] The song "Prayer of San Francisco", was used in the novel of Rede Globo, Velho Chico.[7] The campaign 'In whose name, San Francisco?' used the same song with a musical arrangement of Tim Rescala.[8] In 1989, the song was re-recorded by Fagner on the album O Quinze,[9] and in 2003, it appeared in an acoustic version in Ana Carolina's voice on the DVD Estampado.[10] In 2013, the song was re-recorded for the official soundtrack of WYD 2013, in the Heart of the Journey, being interpreted by Adriana Arydes, Eliana Ribeiro, Guilherme de Sá, Sister Kelly Patrícia, Father Fábio de Melo and Father Marcelo Rossi.[11] Still in 2013, an instrumental version was released by the OPA Group.[12]

He worked with Father Harold Rahm of the Christian Leadership Training (TLC)[13] and founded the TLC Musical (TLM) in 1970, a group linked to TLC that also expanded and became the OPA - Prayer for Art in 1976.[14][1] Among the people who passed the OPA are the singers Daniela Mercury and Ana Paula Bouzas and the emeritus Bishop Gílio Felício.[15]

Discography

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  • 1967 – Juventude e Alegria – Pe. Irala (first LP)[16]
  • 1968 – Irala Canta – Pe. Irala
  • 1968 – Meu Rosto é Alegria – Pe. Irala
  • 1969 – Transpondo Fronteiras – Vamos Cantar o Amor – Pe. Irala
  • 1976 – Nostalgia de Deus – Pe. Irala
  • 1977 – Irala – Pe. Irala
  • 1985 – Clara Luz – Pe. Irala SJ
  • 2007 – Provocação – Pe. Irala SJ e OPA group
  • 2007 – Gente Boa – Pe. Irala SJ and OPA group
  • 2007 – Maria – Pe. Irala SJ and OPA group
  • 2007 – Meditação para a paz – Pe. Irala SJ and OPA group
  • 2007 – É Natal – Pe. Irala SJ and OPA group
  • 2007 – Missa do Ano Jubilar Inaciano – Canções – Pe. Irala SJ and OPA group

Published Books

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  • Pe Irala SJ (1971). O Porque do Sucesso. [S.I.]: Edições Loyola.
  • Pe Irala SJ (1975). Igreja Ficção. [S.I.]: Edições Loyola.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Pe. Irala;sj". Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Morte" (PDF). IHU Online. 496. São Leopoldo, RS: Instituto Humanitas Unisinos. 31 October 2016. ISSN 1981-8793.
  3. ^ "Una nueva Misa Guaraní". UltimaHora. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Padre Casimiro Irala, fundador do OPA, celebra 50 anos de sacerdócio". 26 December 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  5. ^ Ferreira, Pedro Augusto de Queiroz; Queiroz, Allan Phablo. "A Agulha Fonocaptora da Cruz: Religião, Música e Ditadura Militar" (PDF). Anais do III Simpósio Nacional de Estudos Culturais e Geoeducacionais. ISBN 978-85-8126-065-5.
  6. ^ Nathália Bormann (12 December 2008). "Padre Irala regrava Oração de São Francisco em show no Recife". Recife: Boletim Unicap – Universidade Católica de Pernambuco.
  7. ^ "Canções gravadas por Paulinas-Comep compõem trilhas de novelas". Paulinas. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Campanha 'Em nome de que, São Francisco?' convoca sociedade para proteger um dos principais rios do Brasil". AMDA. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Cliquemusic : Disco".
  10. ^ "Cliquemusic : Disco".
  11. ^ "JMJ lança vídeos com letras e partituras do CD "No Coração da Jornada" - JMJ Rio 2013". Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Oração de São Francisco por Grupo OPA". iTunes. 4 October 2013.
  13. ^ Chalita, Gabriel (2006). Eu acredito em milagres: A história de padre Jonas Abib. São Paulo: Canção Nova. p. 215. ISBN 85-99903-15-2.
  14. ^ "História do TLC". Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  15. ^ Simone Simões (19 January 2003). "OPA faz reunião nacional em Agudos". Retrieved 13 June 2019.[permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ "O trem dos artistas – O Primeiro Lar". Ed Paulinas. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
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  • OPA – Oração pela Arte
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