Voices Found

  Litany for the Sisters of the Christ Voices Found 12 Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Sisters of the Christ, you who nursed the truth, gave him to be blessed. wrapped him in your love: Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Women at the birth, women at the death, you who washed the body, found the Jesus life: Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Be your names remembered in the heart of God. You who stood the fire, sisters drowned and hung, witches you were named, martyrs you have died: Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Be your names remembered in the heart of God. You who taught the Word, preached in foreign tongues, cried aloud at war, sang in prison cells: Be your names remembered in the heart of God. Be your names remembered in the heart of God. You who lived the creeds, you who kept the hearth, laid in quiet graves, never given praise: Be your n...

    Voices Found  111 and 112 All things bright and beautiful Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, he made their glowing colors, he made their tiny wings. Refrain The purple headed mountain, the river running by, the sunset and the morning that brightens up the sky. Refrain The cold wind in the winter, the pleasant summer sun, the ripe fruits in the garden, he made them every one. Refrain   He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell how great is God Almighty, who has made all things well. Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all Words: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)  Music:  Royal Oak,  melody from  The Dancing Master,  1686 or              All ...

 The sunflower symbolizes determination of women to shine brightly                                                     through any challenge The Persistent Widow Voices Found #25 Jesus describes a forceful woman, a widow who refused to bend before a judge, a man of power, whose judgements worked to no good end: she knew that she had power, too, and trusted in the strength she knew. Words: Michael Hudson Music: Wer nur den lieben Gott, Georg Neumark (1621-1681) Hudson's well-crafted text leads the singer through the parable (Luke 18:1-21a) with an economy of words.  The coupling of this text with the seventeenth century hymn tune demonstrates not only a good marriage between text and tune, but also surreptitiously recalls the original text.  Here is the first stanza of the text translated by Catherine Winkworth: If ...

                                                              Voices Found #88 Nada te turbe, nada te espante:  quien a Dios  tiene nada la falta. Nada te turbe, nada te espante:  solo Dios basta! Let nothing worry or upset you: whoever has God needs fear nothing. Let nothing worry or upset you: God alone is enough. Jacques Berthier (1923-1924) adapt. Teresa of Avila Teresa of Avila (1525-1582) knew evil.  Her paternal grandfather, a Jew, was forced to convert to Christianity. Her father was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition for allegedly returning to Judaism.  In her own work to establish and reform monasteries, she too, faced the Inquisition, although charges were eventually dropped. Despite persecution, or perhaps because of it, she is known for her books  The Interior Castle , and...