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Beautify My Soul
A while back I quoted my favorite line from my Celtic prayer book. As I was looking through “A Celtic Primer: The Complete Celtic Worship Resource and Collection” (Morehouse Publishing), I found that line in its context. Here’s the fuller prayer/poem, from p.171-2 of that excellent resource:
Christ’s Bounties
O Son of God, do a miracle for me
and change my heart; taking flesh
to redeem me was more difficult
than the transformation of my sinfulness.
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To help me you were scourged
by the Jews’ dear child of Mary,
You are the refined molten
metal of our forge.
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It is You who have made the
sun bright, together with the ice;
it is You who created the river
and the salmon that swim therein.
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It is a care skill, O Christ,
that the nut-tree should be flowering;
your craft too brings forth the kernel,
O fairest ear of wheat.
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Though the children of Eve do not deserve
the bounty of bird and salmon,
it was the Immortal One
on the Cross who made them both.
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He makes the sloe to blossom
through the blackthorn, and
the nut-tree to flower;
What miracle is greater than this?
- Irish, fifteenth century
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Colleen said...
1Hey Pat! I really like this prayer, I have been wanting to add more congregational prayers in our worship service. When we first started I used to do a lot of it but have fallen out of the habit recently. If you have any suggestions please send them my way. I also really enjoyed reading your journals from your classes.
And, thanks for hanging yesterday, your input was invaluable!
06/9/08 10:29 AM | Comment Link
Pat said...
2Hey Colleen!
I like using congregational prayers too - I’m moving back this direction for my own formation, too. But for a group together, here’s something we tried as our call to worship: we read together the weekly prayer from the Book of Common Prayer. http://www.io.com/~kellywp/index.html, and for each date look at RCL (revised common lectionary).
I liked to introduce these prayers every week by reminding people that even though we were small and experimental, we were rooted in a global, historical faith tradition and living out that faith in our own neighborhood… so, with the global church we pray this together.
I’ve got lots of other written stuff too - St. Patrick’s Breastplate is a favorite too (of course, duh :-))
06/9/08 1:54 PM | Comment Link