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The second act is where the relationship between Hildegard and Richardis blossoms and with it, musically, the arrival of rapture and onset of an ecstasy more overpowering than Godly visions.

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In Disney, Dudamel’s “Resurrection” had the quality of rapture in surround sound.

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Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.

She wrote, “I was completely inhabiting my body. It was an entirely unfamiliar freedom, bodily freedom, rapture.”

“God wants to rescue the Christians out of the world before what is coming comes,” Mhlakela said, adding that September’s rapture would be “the final one.”

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