If you attend a Memorial Day ceremony this year, chances are you will hear “On Eagle’s Wings,” which is based on the text of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A hymn written by a Twin Cities priest more than 40 years ago is surging in popularity. President-elect Joe Biden quoted "On Eagle's Wings" to close out his victory speech ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI -- As Martin Luther King Jr. led the fight for civil rights, protesters called for an end to the war in Vietnam and students stormed the universities, the Catholic church started a ...

Fr. Michael Joncas was watching President-elect Joe Biden's victory speech Nov. 7, but not even he was expecting Biden to quote from his well-known hymn "On Eagle's Wings." Biden gave an fairly ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — During COVID-19, the notion of 'shelter' has taken on new meaning. Now, it has also delivered a new song. Father Michael Joncas had been praying about the global pandemic before bed.

The Rev. Jan Michael Joncas has written 17 collections of liturgical music but he's best known for "On Eagles' Wings," a hymn he composed in the late 1970s as a seminary student. The song became one ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Prominent American Catholic priest, liturgist, musician and composer Michael Joncas was in Australia to ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — As Joe Biden wrapped up his first nationwide address as president-elect, he shared the lyrics of a song. "In the last stage of the campaign, I began thinking about a hymn that ...

Professor, writer and composer Michael Joncas is widely known for his 1976 piece “On Eagle’s Wings,” a beloved work often performed at both Catholic and Protestant funerals. But Joncas, ...

Michael Joncas can look back gratefully on a career as a musician, author, professor and priest that was just beginning a quarter-century ago when he composed "On Eagles' Wings," his world-famous ...

Prominent American Catholic priest, liturgist, musician and composer Michael Joncas was in Australia to address a crowd of 600 on liturgy and music. The national conference in Wollongong marked 50 ...