Andy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} emperoraf) wrote,@ 2009-07-18 00:11:00 |
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On a Song and a Prayer
I HAVE FEW words. So, I'll let the Book of Common Prayer and Arvo Part speak for me. The video is a setting of the Te Deum by Estonian composer Arvo Part. Do give it a listen and try not be startled by its austere beginning, as it turns into something quite beautiful. It is now one of my favorite pieces (BTW, this is the first of what I think is five videos).
THE SECOND IS "A General Thanksgiving" from the BCP '79. This is not the most common General Thanksgiving that is found at the end of Morning and Evening prayer, but is in the back of the book. It is quite wonderful:
I HAVE FEW words. So, I'll let the Book of Common Prayer and Arvo Part speak for me. The video is a setting of the Te Deum by Estonian composer Arvo Part. Do give it a listen and try not be startled by its austere beginning, as it turns into something quite beautiful. It is now one of my favorite pieces (BTW, this is the first of what I think is five videos).
THE SECOND IS "A General Thanksgiving" from the BCP '79. This is not the most common General Thanksgiving that is found at the end of Morning and Evening prayer, but is in the back of the book. It is quite wonderful:
"Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.
We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.
We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.
We thank you also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.
Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying, through which he overcame death; and for his rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom. Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know him and make him known; and through him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to you in all things. Amen."
