Voices Found

                                                                             Voices Found #147, verses 3 and 4 There is a longing in our hearts, O Lord, for you to reveal yourself to us.  There is a longing in our hearts for love  we only find in you, our God. For healing, for wholeness, for new life: hear our prayer. In sickness, in death:  Be near, hear our prayer, O God.   There is a longing in our hearts, O Lord, for you to reveal yourself to us.  There is a longing in our hearts for love  we only find in you, our God. Lord save us, take pity, light in our darkness. We call you, we wait:   Be near, hear our prayer, O God . Words and Music: Anne Quigley   Anne  Quigley,   a hymn writer in UK and a member of the St. Thomas Moore Group...

                                                                               The Wisdom Ring, Morikami Gardens, Delray Beach, Florida Voices Found # 60, Verses 1 and 2 Come and seek the ways of Wisdom, she who danced when Earth was new. Follow closely what she teaches,  for her words are right and true. Wisdom clears the path to justice,  showing us what love must do. Listen to the voice of Wisdom, crying in the marketplace. Hear the Word made flesh among us  full of glory, truth, and grace. When the Word takes root and ripens, peace and righteousness embrace. Words: Ruth C. Duck Music:  Julian  David Hurd "Come and seek the ways of Wisdom," beautifully echoes the Wisdom text appointed for Proper 27.  It is also an Advent hymn as it anticipates hearing the Wo...

  Send out your light, Psalm 43 VF 148 Antiphon :  Send out your light and truth so they may lead me Give judgement for  me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people Deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked For you are the God of my strength Why have you put me from you? Why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me? Antiphon: Send out your light and your truth so they may lead me! That I may go to the alter of God, to the God of my joy and gladness And on the harp I will give thanks to you, O God my God Antiphon :  Send out your light and truth that they may lead me Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? And why are you do disquieted within me? Put your trust in God; for I will yet give thanks to the Most High Who is the help of my countenance and my God. Antiphon:   Send out your light and your truth so they may lead me.   Words: Psalm 43 trans. John L Hooker adapted Lisa Neufeld Thomas  Music: Melody from Hildegard of Bi...

                                                                                                                                   Chagall, The Sources of Music                                                                                  Voices Found # 150   Antiphon:   Declare his glory among all nations; and his wonders among all people Verse One Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to ghe Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless his name; proc...