Voices Found

  Ruth 1:15-22 and Luke 18: 1-8 are appointed for Proper 13  in  The Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church Year B Voices Found # 25 Jesus describes a forceful woman, a widow who  refuses to bend before a judge, a man of power, whose judgements worked to no good end: she knew she had power, too, and trusted in the strength she knew. And day by day she spoke for justice, and word by word injustice waned until impassive will relented, and her impassioned faith remained: believing God would make a way, she found the grace that faith conveys. New we, observing, are invited to recollect what faith can gain when faithful people are undaunted and hope, in conflict, is sustained: as we, like she, wield stubborn trust, God comes to move the world through us. Words: Michael Hudson (based on Luke 18:1-8) Music: Wer nur den lieben, Georg Neumark (1621-1681) Ruth said: Do not press me to forsake you or to turn back from following you. Where you go, I will go, where you abide, I ...

  Voices Found #123 Glorious God, receive us; Loving Christ, restore us; Healing Spirit, renew us.  Alice Parker (1925-2023) Kyrie from her mass paraphrase Psalm 133 and Mark 14:3-9 are appointed in The Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church for Proper 12B (Closest to July 27) Look! How precious and how lovely  when [friends and] kin live together as one! Like the precious oil on the head, running down upon the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down over his robes. Like the dew of Hermon, That falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the Womb of Creation commanded her blessing, life eternal. Psalm 133( tr. Gafney) Mark 14:3-4, 9) Now Jesus was at Bethany in the home of Simon who had a skin disease; as he reclined at table, a woman came with an alabaster vessel of pure nard ointment--very expensive--she broke open the alabaster and poured it on his head."  But some being angry said among themselves, "For what was the nard wasted? For this oin...

  Voices Found #122 Refrain: O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn, O Mary don't you  weep, don't you mourn; Pharoah's army got drowned, O Mary, don't you weep, Some of these mornings bright and fair, take my wings and cleave the air, Pharoah's army got drowned, O Mary don't you weep. Refrain O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn, O Mary don't you  weep, don't you mourn; Pharoah's army got drowned, O Mary, don't you weep, When I get to heaven goin' to sing and shout, nobody there for to turn me out. Pharoah's army got drownded, O Mary don't you weep. Refrain O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn, O Mary don't you  weep, don't you mourn; Pharoah's army got drowned, O Mary, don't you weep, When I get to heaven goin' to put o my shoes, run about glory and tell all the news. Pharoah's army got drownded, O Mary don't you weep. O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn, O Mary ...

  Voices Found #33 The grain is ripe The grain is ripe: the harvest comes! good seed of hope, your time is now justice will stream from hill and river, more than you dream and running over. The righteous God gives this and more: grace is the mode, mercy the key, God comes in truth, the sharpest laser to scan the earth, to take our measure. The work of peace is all for all, face turned to face in open trust, all famine gone and thirst and bleeding, the harvest comes from love's good seeding. Words: Shirley E rena Murray (1931-2020) Music: Greensborough, Philip Nunn (b. 1961) Ruth and Naomi were vulnerable migrants. Since the time of Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham, starving families have been forced to flee poverty and famine, to search for food and sustenance in far away lands.  Shirley Erena Murray's hymn, "The grain is ripe," assures us of  The Faithful One's   providence in the face of famine, fear, and injustice.  Ruth and Naomi fled famine in Moab;  they tra...

  Voices Found #138 I hope my mother will be there I hope my mother will be there, in that beautiful world on high, that used to join with me in prayer, in that beautiful world on high. REFRAIN Oh I will be there, oh I will be there  with the palms of victory, crowns of glory you shall wear, in that beautiful world on high. I hope my sister will be there, in that beautiful  world on high, that used to join with  me in prayer, in that beautiful world on high. REFRAIN I hope my brother will be there, in that beautiful world on high, that used to join with me in prayer, in that beautiful world on high. REFRAIN I know my Savior will be there, in that beautiful world on high, that used to listen to my prayer, in that beautiful world on high . REFRAIN Oh I will be there, oh I will be there  with the palms of victory, crowns of glory you shall wear, in that beautiful world on high. Words: Ed. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) Music: Arr. Carl Heywood "I hope my mother will be...