Abbey of the Arts Prayer Cycle

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: The Bookmark Prayer (St. Teresa) by Simon de Voil from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Joseph Whelan, SJ: https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/p...

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: You Are Sweet (Mechtild of Magdeburg) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the a...

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Litany of the Saints by Betsey Beckman from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs...

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: A New Name (Jacob’s Round) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Der Schauende,” from his...

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Holy Angels by Sara Thomsen from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contem...

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Welcome to this Circle by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Peter Stanford Angels: A Visible and Invisible History. Hodder & Stought...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: The World Is My Monastery by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living First Reading: Kaitlin Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God, Brazos Press, 2020. page 15. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Now I Am Revealing by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectio...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Behold I Make All Things New by Alana Levandoski from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living First Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations from the Heart, Beacon Press, 1999. page 106. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the W...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Maria Wanders Through the Thorns by Kristy Karen Smith from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney,...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Welcome in the Stranger by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics First Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practice of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004, page 4. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Coll...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Saint Gobnait by Simon de Voil from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary fo...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Remember the Path by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living First Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations from the Heart, Beacon Press, 1999. page 29. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the Wor...

Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Christ Within by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publi...

Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Brigid’s Birds by Margaret McLarty from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers First Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practice of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004. page 41. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World:...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Undo Me by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectio...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: I Lay Open (Psalm 25) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Trust First Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations from the Heart, Beacon Press, 1999. page 174. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psal...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Hail Mary by Alana Levandoski from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Song of Brigid by Laura Ash from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics First Reading: Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk, Harmony Books, 2006, New York, NY. page 12. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Ps...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas Opening Song: Magnificat by Simon de Voil from Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Interpretation of Psalm 14 by Rev. Christine Rob...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas Opening Song: Calling Maria by Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine First Reading from Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints. New York: Continuum (2009) page 78-79. Sung P...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas Opening Song: Maria Wanders Through the Thorns (traditional) sung by Kristy Karen Smith from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas Opening Song: We Are Bringing God to Birth by Betsey Beckman from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine First Reading from Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister. (New York: Continuum, 2009), 34 Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoo...

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas Opening Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman from the album Singing with Saints and Mystics Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Interpretation of Psalm 65 by Rev. Christine Robinson Reading of th...