This week, we offer a song to incorporate into your practice. The audio recording with full lyrics can be found on YouTube, or on the MMOC Contemplative prayer webpage at https://marymother.org/contemplative-prayer. An excerpt from the song is featured here.
THE CHRIST HYMN music and chorus by Alana Levandoski poetry by Malcolm Guite, Scott Cairns, Joel McKerrow, Luci Shaw
Everything holds together, everything, From stars that pierce the dark like living sparks, To secret seeds that open every spring, From spanning galaxies to spinning quarks, Everything holds together and coheres, Unfolding from the center whence it came. And now that hidden heart of things appears, The first-born of creation takes a name.
And shall I see the one through whom I am? Shall I behold the one for whom I’m made, The light in light, the flame within the flame, Eikon tou theou, image of my God? He comes, a little child, to bless my sight, That I might come to him for life and light.
In whom all things hold together
And when we had invented death, had severed every soul from life we made of these our bodies sepulchers. And as we wandered dying, dim among the dying multitudes, He acquiesced to be interred in us. And when He had descended thus into our persons and the grave He broke the limits, opening the grip He shaped of every sepulcher a womb.