Abbey of the Arts Prayer Cycle: Recent Episodes
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Birthing the Holy, Earth Monastery, and the Monk in the World Prayer Cycle are all free offerings from Abbey of the Arts of 7 days of morning and evening prayer. Earth Monastery is on the theme of cultivating an Earth-cherishing consciousness. Monk in the World is on the themes from the Monk Manifesto. Birthing the Holy celebrates Mary and the sacred feminine. AbbeyoftheArts.com is a virtual monastery and global community.
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts online Abbess Christine Valters Paintner reads her blessing and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Christine Valters Paintner, A Book of Everyday Blessings: 100 Prayers for Dancing Monks, Artists, and Pilgrims. (Ave Maria Press, 2026), pg. 8AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Jo-ed Tome reads Kathleen Schwab and Therese Kay and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Kathleen Schwab and Therese Kay, A Healing Journey: 14 Daily Devotionals for Those Dealing with Grief, Pain, or Anxiety. (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2018), no page number in KindleAbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Felicia Murrell reads Liza J. Rankow and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Liza J. Rankow, Soul Medicine for a Fractured World. (New York: Orbis Books, 2026), pg. 118AbbeyoftheArts.com
Abbey of the Arts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Melinda Thomas reads her poem and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Melinda Emily Thomas, “Earth’s Magnificat”, originally published December 2025 online in The Journal of Elements and Seasons: MelindaEmilyThomas.substack.com/p/earths-magnificat. From her forthcoming collection, Original Name.AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Cassidhe Hart reads Barbara Holmes and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Barbara Homes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2004), pgs. 96–97AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Te Martin reads Austin Channing Brown and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. (Convergent Books, 2018), pgs. 171–172AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Claudia Love Mair reads Isaiah and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Isaiah 43:10. Scripture quotation is from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson (biblehub.com/nkjv/isaiah/43.htm). All rights reserved.AbbeyoftheArts.com
Things that Sustain You When the World Goes Dark. (William Collins, 2021), pgs. 260–261AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Michael Moore reads Howard Thurman and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Howard Thurman, “How Good to Center Down!” from Meditations of the Heart. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1992), pgs. 28–29AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Felicia Murrell reads from her book AND: The Restorative Power of Love and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Felicia Murrell, AND: The Restorative Power of Love In An Either/Or World. (PA: Whitaker House, 2024), pgs. 112–113AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Melinda Thomas and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church. (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2015), pgs. 232–233AbbeyoftheArts.com
Molly Brown and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, Coming Back to Life. (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2014), pgs. 53–54AbbeyoftheArts.com
James Finely. “Turning to the Mystics” CAC Podcast with James Finely.AbbeyoftheArts.com
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AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Jo-ed Tome reads Marlene Marburg and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Marlene Marburg, Grace Upon Grace: Savouring the Spiritual Exercises through the Arts. (Morning Star Publishing, 2019), pgs. 29–30AbbeyoftheArts.com
Abbey of the Arts.comWisdom Council member Kayce Stevens Hughlett reads from her essay and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Kayce Stevens Hughlett, “Joy and Sorrow Are Sisters”, published July 2015 online in her blog: kaycehughlett.com/blog/2015/7/28/joy-and-sorrow-are-sistersAbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Felicia Murrell reads Valarie Kaur and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. All texts under fair use or with permission.Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. (New York: One World, 2020), pg. 133AbbeyoftheArts.com
(Henri J.M. Nouwen. ©The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust). Published in Weavings 3, No. 2 (March–April 1988)AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Melinda Thomas reads Kat Armas and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Kat Armas, Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World. (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2025), pg. 65AbbeyoftheArts.com
Abbey of the Arts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Cassidhe Hart reads Julian of Norwich and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Julian of Norwich, Showings, trans. by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh. (New York: Paulist Press, 1978), pgs. 130–131
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Te Martin reads Cynthia Bailey Manns and invites you into 5 minutes of silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world. Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Cynthia Bailey Manns, “Claimed: A Transformational Journey of Holiness, Wholeness, and Ministry” from Embodied Spirits: The Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color. (Morehouse Publishing, 2014), pg. 64
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Claudia Love Mair reads Lenny Duncan and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Lenny Duncan, Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World Beyond the Church. (Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf Books, 2023), pg. 48AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Te Martin reads Kat Armas and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Kat Armas, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength. (Brazos Press, 2021), pg. 170AbbeyoftheArts.com
AbbeyoftheArts.comAbbey of the Arts Wisdom Council member Claudia Love Mair reads Cole Arthur Riley and invites you into 5 minutes of contemplative silence to hold a loving intention for peace, justice, and compassion to flourish in the world.Credits:All texts under fair use or with permission.Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. (New York: Convergent Books, 2022), pg. 128AbbeyoftheArts.com
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Claudia Love MairOpening Song: We Are Weaving Our Lives by Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoySung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 104: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, adapted, set to music and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Makoto Fujimura, Art + Faith: A Theology of Making. Yale University Press (2021) page 12.Closing Song: On the Wings of Grace by Melanie DeMore from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Claudia Love MairPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Jo-ed TomeOpening Song: Beauty by Betsey Beckman, arranged and performed by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingFirst Reading: Sophfronia Scott, The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton. Broadleaf Books (2021) page 60.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 65: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent Books (2023) page 38-41.Prayers of Concern written by Jo-ed TomeSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: Only Grace by The Many from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy. Words by Lenora Rand, Music by Hannah Rand © 2016 Mirasion Music (ASCAP)Closing Blessing written by Jo-ed TomePrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Jo-ed TomeOpening Song: Join in the Joy by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and MysticsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 19: Interpretation, musical setting, and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart. Beacon Press (2023) page 106.Closing Song: Joy to Life by Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Jo-ed TomePrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Cassidhe HartOpening Song: All Belong Here by The Many, from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy. Lyrics by Lenora Rand; Music by Hannah Rand As recorded by The Many ©2017 Plural Guild MusicFirst Reading: Patrick Saint-Jean, Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola. Harding House Publishing, Inc./Anamcharabooks, (2021) page 305.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 45: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Tracey Michea’l Lewis-Giggetts, Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration. Gallery Books (2022) page xxi. Prayers of Concern written by Cassidhe HartSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: Praise the Maker, by Alana Levandoski from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Cassidhe Hart. Final line in reference to “Praise the Maker” by Alana LevandoskiPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Melinda ThomasOpening Song: May I Be Empty by Batya Levine (a queer Jewish artist) © 2020, from the album Karov Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 84: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Cynthia Bailey Manns, Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color. Morehouse Publishing (2013) page 64.Closing Song: Nairobi Women’s Peace Song by Karen MacKay and Nancy Nordlie, recorded by Lorraine Bayes from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Melinda ThomasPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Jo-ed TomeOpening Song: Arms of Love by Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyFirst Reading: Tyler Sit, Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers. Chalice Press (2021) page xli.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 46: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart. Beacon Press (2023) page 29.Prayers of Concern written by Jo-ed TomeSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: Deep Peace by Bill Douglas, adapted by Simon de VoilClosing Blessing written by Jo-ed TomePrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Cassidhe HartOpening Song: May This Body Be a Bridge by Te Martin from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoySung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 13: Interpretation, musical setting, and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church. Fortress Press (2017) page 111.Closing Song: Prayer of St. Francis by Simon de Voil from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingClosing Blessing written by Cassidhe HartPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Claudia Love MairOpening Song: We Rise by Batya Levine (a queer Jewish artist) © 2020, from the album Karov First Reading: Kat Armas, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength. Brazos Press (2021) page 72.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 37: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, adaptation, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church. Fortress Press (2017) page 11.Prayers of Concern: Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: We Shall Be Known by MaMuse from the album Prayers for FreedomClosing Blessing written by Claudia Love MairPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Claudia Love MairOpening Song: Dreams by Soyinka Rahim from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoySung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 113: Interpretation by Christine Robinson. Musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Convergent Books (2018) page 180-181.Closing Song: Your Heart Knows the Way Home by Te Martin from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Claudia Love MairPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Cassidhe HartOpening Song: Dweller by Joel McKerrow from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyFirst Reading: Randy Woodley, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. Broadleaf Books (2022) page 57-58.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 23: Interpretation and musical setting by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Maurice J. Nutt, Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color. Morehouse Publishing (2013). page 19-20.Prayers of Concern written by Cassidhe HartSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: Fear Not the Pain by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Cassidhe HartPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Cassidhe HartOpening Song: Open Up Ancient Gates by Dena Jennings from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoySung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 90: Translation and musical setting by James Block, adapted and sung by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent Books (2023) pg XClosing Song: © 1997, Trisha Watts. Originally published by Willow Publishing Pty Ltd. www.willowpublishing.com.au. Available from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Cassidhe HartPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Melinda ThomasOpening Song: Wade in the Water by Benjamin Mertz from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyFirst Reading: Wilda Gafney, Womanist Midrash: Volume 1: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Westminster John Knox Press (2017) page 3-4.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 8: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Mihee Kim Kort, Outside the Lines:How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith. Fortress Press (2018) page 100.Prayers of Concern written by Melinda ThomasSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: Plowshare Prayer by Spencer La Joye from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Melinda ThomasPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Jo-ed TomeOpening Song: Release by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoySung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 139: Tune: The Banks of Claudy, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 2. Performed by Simon de VoilReading of the Night: Luther E. Smith, Hope is Here!: Spiritual Practices for Pursuing Justice and Beloved Community. Westminster John Knox Press (2023) page 183.Closing Song: Mend Your Heart by Dena Jennings from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written by Jo-ed TomePrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.Opening Prayer written by Claudia Love MairOpening Song: I Know by Soyinka Rahim from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyFirst Reading: Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Convergent Books (2018) page 176.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm 34: Interpretation, musical setting, and sung by Simon de VoilSecond Reading: Steven Charleston, We Survived the End of the World. Broadleaf Books (2023) page 109.Prayers of Concern written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2025Closing Song: There is No Gift So Holy, by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and JoyClosing Blessing written Claudia Love MairPrayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Holy Holy Holy by Karen Drucker from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Bold Riley, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Rest in the ShelterReading of the Night: Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. Simon and Schuster (1996) page 159.Closing Song: I Am Here by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic SeekersClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Let the Land Sing by Lydia Violet from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life. Riverhead Books (2002) page 4-5.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Happy Are We All Together, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the album May We RiseSecond Reading: Job 38:4-7 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Now I Walk in Beauty Diné Navajo Prayer sung by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the SacredClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Cypress Seed Song written by Betsey Beckman, sung by Te Martin from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Saints and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: BánChnoic Eirann O, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the forthcoming album May We RiseReading of the Night: Patrick B. Reyes, The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press (2021) page 156 and 164.Closing Song: May What I Do by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and MysticsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Grandmother Song by Sandy Vaughn, adapted by Lorraine Bayes from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Easter, Sandra. Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web. Muswell Hill Press. Kindle Edition.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: The Banks of Claudy, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 2.Second Reading: Colossians 3:15-16 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda ThomasSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Following the River Home by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the SacredClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: The Spirits Are Here with Us by Soyinka Rahim from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: A Fig for a Kiss, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the forthcoming album May We Rise.Reading of the Night: Vincent Harding, “I Hear Them. . . Calling,” in Callings, ed. James Y. Holloway and Will D. Campbell (New York: Paulist Press, 1974), 31-39. Page 39.Closing Song: In My Heart is the Road by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic SeekersClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Weep with Me by Deirdre Ní Chinneíde from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Henri J. M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith HarperOne, 1997 (entry for August 29)Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: The Lament of the Three Marys/Coaineadh na dTrí Muire, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Celtic Psalms: Rest in the ShelterSecond Reading: Jeremiah 31:15 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: We Remember Them by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Go in Peace by Katarina Stenstedt from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2013, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 1.Reading of the Night: Numbers 14:18 (The New Living Translation) (Adapted)Closing Song: Sending You Light by Melanie DeMore from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Ancestor Song by Te Martin from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent Books, 2022, (pg 60)Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Willy Taylor, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2013, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 1.Second Reading: Hebrews 12:1 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda ThomasSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: You Are Sweet (Mechtild of Magdeburg) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Rathlin Island (Brian Connors), Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022. From the album Celtic Psalms: May We Rise.Reading of the Night: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers (2004), page 130.Closing Song: This World Is Pregnant with God (Singing with Angela of Foligno) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: The Bookmark Prayer (St. Teresa) by Simon de Voil from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Joseph Whelan, SJ: https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/prayers-by-st-ignatius-and-others/fall-in-love/Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Here’s a Health, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Celtic Psams: Rest in the ShelterSecond Reading: Revelation 8:2-4 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Christ is the Mirror (Clare of Assisi) by Laura Ash from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Litany of the Saints by Betsey Beckman from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Far, Far Beyond Yon Mountains, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the album Celtic Psalms: May We Rise.Reading of the Night: Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation. New Directions (2007) page 31Closing Song: All Shall Be Well (Julian of Norwich) by Kathryn Christian from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: A New Name (Jacob’s Round) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Der Schauende,” from his Book of Images, by Christine Valters Paintner and Katharina ReschSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: The Quiet Land of Erin, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol. 2Second Reading: Genesis 32:22-28 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda ThomasSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Calling All Angels by MaMuse from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Holy Angels by Sara Thomsen from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: The Parting Glass, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol. 2Reading of the Night: bell hooks, all above love: new visions. HarperCollins (2001) pages 225-227.Closing Song: Mary, Queen of Angels by Lorraine Bayes from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred FeminineClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/Credits: All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Welcome to this Circle by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and AncestorsFirst Reading: Peter Stanford Angels: A Visible and Invisible History. Hodder & Stoughton LTD (2019) page 7.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Version: Tune: Dearthairin o Mo Chroi, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from Celtic Psalms: Rest in the ShelterSecond Reading: Genesis 28:10-12 (NRSV)Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023Closing Song: Archangel Invocation by Simon de Voil from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: The World Is My Monastery by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and MysticsSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 270.Reading of the Night: Judith E. Smith, from “This Ground is Holy Ground” in Weavings JournalClosing Poem: “How to Be a Pilgrim” written by Christine Valters Paintner from Dreaming of Stones: Poems, Paraclete Press, Brewster, MA, 2019. page 48.Closing Song: Following the River Home by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the SacredPlease note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingFirst 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 Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 38.Second Reading: Luke 24:28-32. Scripture quotation is from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine RoseClosing Song: Beauty by Betsey Beckman from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening 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 LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 34.Reading of the Night: Saying of the Desert Fathers, edited by Benedicta Ward, Liturgical Press, 1984. Silvanus 11.Closing Poem: “How To Feel The Sap Rising.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.Closing Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman from the album Singing with Saints and MysticsPlease note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Behold I Make All Things New by Alana Levandoski from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingFirst 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 World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 18-19.Second Reading: Luke 15:23-24. Scripture quotation is from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.Prayers of Concern: Written by Cassidhe HartSung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine RoseClosing Song: Breathe In by Peter Mayer from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening 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 LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 203.Reading of the Night: Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage, Conari Press, 2021. page xxix.Closing Poem: “Please can I have a God.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.Closing Song: I Am Here by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic SeekersPlease note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Welcome in the Stranger by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and MysticsFirst Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practice of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004, page 4.Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 1-2.Second Reading: John 4:7-9a, 10. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love MairSung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine RoseClosing Song: Promise to the Saints by Carmel Boyle from the album Singing with Monks and MysticsClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Saint Gobnait by Simon de Voil from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the SacredSung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 206.Reading of the Night: Richard R. Niebuhr, “Pilgrims and Pioneers: Themes of Spiritual Pilgrimage,” Parabola Magazine, August 1984, page 7.Closing Poem: “This is what it’s like to yield.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.Closing Song: In the Silence by John Coleman from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPlease note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permissionOpening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters PaintnerOpening Song: Remember the Path by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative LivingFirst 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 World: Songs for Contemplative LivingPsalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 193-194.Second Reading: Matthew 2:13-15. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Prayers of Concern: Written by Cassidhe HartSung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Painter and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine RoseClosing Song: Now I Walk in Beauty by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the SacredClosing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 15.
Reading of the Night: Saying of the Desert Fathers, edited by Benedicta Ward, Liturgical Press, 1984. Theodora 2
Closing Poem: “Remember.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.
Closing Song: Blessing of the Elements by Betsey Beckman from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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: Songs for Contemplative Living
Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 97.
Second Reading: Exodus 15:19-21. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair
Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Peregrine by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 228-229.
Reading of the Night: Kerry Walters, Soul Wilderness: A Desert Spirituality, Paulist Press, 2001. page 80.
Closing Poem: “Invite Wonder.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.
Closing Song: Surrender by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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
Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 75.
Second Reading: Genesis 12: 1-2. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Prayers of Concern: Written by Cassidhe Hart
Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Open Hand by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection except for “I Lay Open” by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan (see credits for source). In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 232.
Reading of the Night: Alan Jones, Passion for Pilgrimage: Notes for the Journey Home, Moorehouse Publishing, 2000. page 39.
Closing Poem: “Following An Ancient Call.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com.
Closing Song: Oscail Mo Chroí by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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
Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 5
Second Reading: Genesis 3:23-24. Scripture quotation is from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair
Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Illumine Me by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred
Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press)
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 Robinson
Reading of the Night from Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet (New York: Continuum, 1994), 187.
Closing Song: Litany of Mary by Tomás Pascual (1595-1635), adapted by Laura Ash, from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 17 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Joy Cowley, Modern Magnificat
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Paton-Brown
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose.
Closing Song: Mother Earth by Betsey Beckman from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
ll 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 Living
Interpretation of Psalm 87 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Cardinal John Henry Newman
Closing Song: Litany of Guadalupe by Tomás Pascual (1595-1635), adapted by Laura Ash, from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 93 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from The Gospel According to Luke (2:6-7 – NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose.
Closing Song: Behold, I Make All Things New by Alana Levandoski from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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 the Night from Courtney Hall Lee, Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017,)
Closing Song: O Viridissima Virga written by Hildegard of Bingen (sung by Laura Ash) from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Requiem by Eliza Gilkyson (sung by Simon de Voil) from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
First Reading from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Untie the Strong Woman (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2011), 34
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 119 v. 25-49 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from The Gospel According to John (19:25b-27 – NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Listening to My Sighing by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Black Madonna by Soyinka Rahim 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 Living
Interpretation of Psalm 102 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickinson, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness. Shambala (1997), 7.
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Closing Song: I am Here by Deírdre Ni Chennéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: In the Silence by John Coleman from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
First Reading from Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 46 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from The Gospel According to Luke (2:16-20 -NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Our Lady of Silence by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: If in Your Heart by Ana Hernández 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 Living
Interpretation of Psalm 71 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from 2 Corinthians 4:7, NRSV
Closing Song: O Sun by Peter Mayer on the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Stella Maris by Gina Salā on the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
First Reading from Bernard of Clairvaux, Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1993), 30.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 123 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading: The Gospel According to Matthew (2:9-11 -NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Paton-Brown
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Deep Peace by Sara Thomsen from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Hail Mary by Alana Levandoski 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 Living
Interpretation of Psalm 122 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night Adapted from Clear Qur’an 3:42-49
Closing Song: Litany of Mary by Laura Ash from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
Closing Blessing by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Undo Me by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
First Reading: Thomas Merton, Seven-Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt Publishing, 1948), 143.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 26 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading: The Gospel According to John (2:1-5 - NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Paton-Brown
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Prayer of St. Francis by Simon de Voil from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
CREDITS
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Ave Maria by Simon de Voil 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 Living
Interpretation of Psalm 16 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night Burke, Mariann, Re-Imagining Mary,( Sheridan, WY: Fisher King Press, 2009,) 26
Closing Song: Hail Mary by Betsey Beckman from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics
Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas
Opening Song: Mary, Queen of Angels by Lorraine Bayes from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine
First Reading from St. Bonaventure
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Interpretation of Psalm 20 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from The Gospel of Luke (1:26-28) NRSV
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Paton-Brown
SUNG RESPONSE based on Litany of Mary by Laura Ash. Adapted & recorded by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Archangel Invocation by Simon de Voil from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal used with permission from Ave Maria Press
Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Behold by Alana Levandoski
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 96 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves.
New York: Ballantine Books (1996).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Beauty by Betsey Beckman
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
CREDITS
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Let Our Hearts Overflow by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
First Reading from Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions Publishing (2007).
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 149 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from 2 Samuel 6:1-5 (NRSV).
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Miriam of the Dance by Betsey Beckman
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
CREDITS
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Now I am Revealing by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 90 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Paul Wilkes, Beyond the Walls: Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Life.
New York: Doubleday Religion (1999).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: The World is My Monastery by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
CREDITS
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Remember the Path by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
First Reading from Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letter XI" in the published collection, first appearing in French under the title Lettres Francaises a Merline. 1919 - 1922, published in 1950.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 99 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NRSV).
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Revolution of the Heart by David Ash
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Surrender by Deirdre Ni Chinneide
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 81 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
New York: Doubleday Religion (2009).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, Dreaming of Stones. Paraclete Press (2019).
Closing Song: Lullaby by Margaret McLarty
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: In My Heart is the Road by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
First Reading from Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2005).
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 126 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Exodus 20:1-11 (NRSV).The Sign of Jonas. Harcourt Press (1981) p. 321.
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: You Can Rest Now by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 45 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from The Rule of St. Benedict. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press (1980).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: May What I Do by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker
First Reading from Joan Chittister, Wisdom Distilled in the Daily. HarperSanFrancisco (1990).
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 40 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Matthew 20:1–16 (NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Prayer of St. Francis by Simon de Voil
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Canticle of Creation by Simon de Voil
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 113 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life.
Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press (2008).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, Dreaming of Stones. Paraclete Press (2019).
Closing Song: Now I Walk in Beauty by Lorraine Bayes
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Archangel Invocation by Simon de Voil
First Reading from Edward Sellner, Finding the Monk Within: Great Monastic Values for Today.
Ambassador Books, Inc (2008).
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 103 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Nehemiah 1:1-8 (NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Divine by Soyinka Rahim
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Listen to My Sighing by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 122 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Nicholas Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press (2014).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Open Hand by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Blessing the Breath of God by Denise Pyles
First Reading from John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert.
Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Inc. (2008),
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 56 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Genesis 18:1-8 (NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Welcome in the Stranger by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: In the Silence by John Coleman
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 46 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night Thomas Merton, A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals.
New York: HarperCollins (2004).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, Dreaming of Stones. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Be Still (Psalm 46) by Simon de Voil
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Breathe In by Peter Mayer
First Reading from Howard Thurman, Deep is the Hunger.
Richmond, IN: Friends United Press (1978).
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 34 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Mark 6:31-33 (NRSV)
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response written by Betsey Beckman, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose
Closing Song: Deep Peace by Sara Thomsen
Closing Blessing: written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Canticle of Creation by Simon de Voil
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 98 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Quoted in Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox, Jeremy Tarcher (2000) p. 69.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Be Still by Simon de Voil
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Creation’s Hallelujah by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
First Reading from Thomas Berry. The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. New York: Crown Publishing (1999) p. 23-24.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 148 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Way of the Pilgrim. Quoted in Jean-Yves Leloup, Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition. New York: Paulist Press (2003) p. 83-84.
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Join in the Joy by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Liturgy written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Closing Song: Saint Gobnait
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Illumine Me by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 65 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from John Klassen, OSB. Quoted in Nature as a Spiritual Practice by Steven Chase. WB Eerdmans (2011) p. 80.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Saint Gobnait by Simon de Voil
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: O Sun by Peter Mayer
First Reading from Francis of Assisi. Quoted in Daniel Ladinsky, trans., Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and the West. New York: Penguin Books (2002) p. 53.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 87 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Julian of Norwich. Julian of Norwich: Showings (Classics of Western Spirituality.) New York: Paulist Press (1978) p. 130.
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: It's a New Day by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Sacrament written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Now I Walk in Beauty by Lorraine Bayes
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 85 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Saint Ninian. Quoted in Robert Van de Weyer, ed. Celtic Fire: The Passionate Religious Vision of Ancient Britain and Ireland. New York: Doubleday (1990) p. 78.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Surrender by Deirdre Ni Chinneide
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Mother Earth by Betsey Beckman
First Reading from Angela of Foligno. Quoted in Carmen Acevedo Butcher, A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics. Paraclete Press (2005) Kindle Edition.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 60 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Saint Bonaventure. Quoted in Ewert Cousins (trans), The Soul’s Journey into God (Classics of Western Spirituality). New York: Paulist Press (1978) p. 26.
Prayers of Concern written by Valerie Allen
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Saints written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Divine Fire by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 48 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux (1999) p. 92.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Deep Peace by Sara Thomsen
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Blessing of the Elements by Betsey Beckman
First Reading from John of the Cross. Daniel Ladinsky, trans., Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and the West. New York: Penguin Books (2002) p. 323.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 139 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Thomas Merton. The Sign of Jonas. Harcourt Press (1981) p. 321.
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Canticle of Creation by Simon de Voil
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Spiritual Directors written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Brigid's Birds by Margaret McLarty
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 24 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Saint Cuthbert. Quoted in Bede’s Sancti Cuthberti 20 (John Francis Webb,translator) Age of Bede, 69-70.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Follow the River Home by Lorraine Bayes
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Saint Columba and the Horse by Simon de Voil
First Reading from Thomas Merton. Quoted in New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions Books (1961) p. 30-32.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 104 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Meister Eckhart. Quoted in Matthew Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart. Bear & Co (1983) p. 14.
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: May What I Do by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Saints written by Christine Valters Paintner
Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle Home Page https://abbeyofthearts.com/about/prayer-cycle/
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Seed of Life by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 19 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. Wordsworth Editions (2007) p. 352 and 356.
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Oscaill Mo Chroi by Deirdre Ni Chinneide
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Turn Me Earth by Peter Mayer
First Reading from John Scotus Eriugena. Quoted in Mary C. Earle. Celtic Christian Spirituality: Essential Writings -- Annotated & Explained SkyLight Paths Publishing (2011) p. 75.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 147 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Bernard of Clairvaux. Quoted in Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church (1840) p. 324.
Prayers of Concern written by Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: Song of Brigid by Laura Ash
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Scripture written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Open Hand by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 8 by the Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter. Three Rivers Press (2005) p. xvii
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Paraclete Press (2020).
Closing Song: Be Still by Simon de Voil
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
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Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Cathedral of Earth, Sky, and Sea by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
First Reading from Saint Catherine of Siena. Quoted in Daniel Ladinsky, trans., Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and the West. New York: Penguin Books (2002) p. 205.
Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 84 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Second Reading from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Divine Milieu. New York: Harper and Row (1960) p. 83.
Prayers of Concern written by Christine Valters Paintner and Polly Burns
Sung Response by Betsey Beckman
Closing Song: The World is My Monastery by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Closing Blessing: Earth as the Original Cathedral written by Christine Valters Paintner
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). The Psalm Opening, Doxology, and the Response to the Prayers of Concern also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.