Abbey of the Arts Prayer Cycle

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Holy Holy Holy by Karen Drucker from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Bold Riley, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Rest in the Shelter Reading of the Night: Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. Simon and Schuster (1996) page 159. Closing Song: I Am Here by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Let the Land Sing by Lydia Violet from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life. Riverhead Books (2002) page 4-5. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Happy Are We All Together, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the album May We Rise Second Reading: Job 38:4-7 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Now I Walk in Beauty Diné Navajo Prayer sung by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Cypress Seed Song written by Betsey Beckman, sung by Te Martin from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Saints and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: BánChnoic Eirann O, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the forthcoming album May We Rise Reading of the Night: Patrick B. Reyes, The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press (2021) page 156 and 164. Closing Song: May What I Do by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Grandmother Song by Sandy Vaughn, adapted by Lorraine Bayes from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Easter, Sandra. Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web. Muswell Hill Press. Kindle Edition. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: The Banks of Claudy, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 2. Second Reading: Colossians 3:15-16 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda Thomas Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Following the River Home by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: The Spirits Are Here with Us by Soyinka Rahim from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: A Fig for a Kiss, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the forthcoming album May We Rise. Reading of the Night: Vincent Harding, “I Hear Them. . . Calling,” in Callings, ed. James Y. Holloway and Will D. Campbell (New York: Paulist Press, 1974), 31-39. Page 39. Closing Song: In My Heart is the Road by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Weep with Me by Deirdre Ní Chinneíde from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Henri J. M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith HarperOne, 1997 (entry for August 29) Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: The Lament of the Three Marys/Coaineadh na dTrí Muire, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Celtic Psalms: Rest in the Shelter Second Reading: Jeremiah 31:15 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: We Remember Them by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (used with permission from Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Go in Peace by Katarina Stenstedt from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2013, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 1. Reading of the Night: Numbers 14:18 (The New Living Translation) (Adapted) Closing Song: Sending You Light by Melanie DeMore from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Ancestor Song by Te Martin from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us. Convergent Books, 2022, (pg 60) Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Willy Taylor, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2013, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol 1. Second Reading: Hebrews 12:1 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda Thomas Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: The Bookmark Prayer (St. Teresa) by Simon de Voil from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Joseph Whelan, SJ: https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/prayers-by-st-ignatius-and-others/fall-in-love/ Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Here’s a Health, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from the album Celtic Psams: Rest in the Shelter Second Reading: Revelation 8:2-4 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Christ is the Mirror (Clare of Assisi) by Laura Ash from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: You Are Sweet (Mechtild of Magdeburg) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Rathlin Island (Brian Connors), Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022. From the album Celtic Psalms: May We Rise. Reading of the Night: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers (2004), page 130. Closing Song: This World Is Pregnant with God (Singing with Angela of Foligno) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Litany of the Saints by Betsey Beckman from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Far, Far Beyond Yon Mountains, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2022, from the album Celtic Psalms: May We Rise. Reading of the Night: Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation. New Directions (2007) page 31 Closing Song: All Shall Be Well (Julian of Norwich) by Kathryn Christian from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: A New Name (Jacob’s Round) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Der Schauende,” from his Book of Images, by Christine Valters Paintner and Katharina Resch Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: The Quiet Land of Erin, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 Second Reading: Genesis 32:22-28 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Melinda Thomas Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Calling All Angels by MaMuse from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Holy Angels by Sara Thomsen from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: The Parting Glass, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2015, from the album Celtic Psalms Vol. 2 Reading of the Night: bell hooks, all above love: new visions. HarperCollins (2001) pages 225-227. Closing Song: Mary, Queen of Angels by Lorraine Bayes from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

https://abbeyofthearts.com/prayer-cycle/the-love-of-thousands/ Credits: All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Welcome to this Circle by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Love of Thousands: Singing with Angels, Saints, and Ancestors First Reading: Peter Stanford Angels: A Visible and Invisible History. Hodder & Stoughton LTD (2019) page 7. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Version: Tune: Dearthairin o Mo Chroi, Words: Kiran Young Wimberly © 2018, from Celtic Psalms: Rest in the Shelter Second Reading: Genesis 28:10-12 (NRSV) Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Words by Abbey Dream Team. Music by Betsey Beckman. Arranged and performed by Alexa Sunshine Rose and Simon de Voil © 2023 Closing Song: Archangel Invocation by Simon de Voil from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Love of Thousands : How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: The World Is My Monastery by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 270. Reading of the Night: Judith E. Smith, from “This Ground is Holy Ground” in Weavings Journal Closing Poem: “How to Be a Pilgrim” written by Christine Valters Paintner from Dreaming of Stones: Poems, Paraclete Press, Brewster, MA, 2019. page 48. Closing Song: Following the River Home by Lorraine Bayes from the album Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Blessing to the World by Karen Drucker from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living First Reading: Kaitlin Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God, Brazos Press, 2020. page 15. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 38. Second Reading: Luke 24:28-32. Scripture quotation is from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose Closing Song: Beauty by Betsey Beckman from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Now I Am Revealing by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 34. Reading of the Night: Saying of the Desert Fathers, edited by Benedicta Ward, Liturgical Press, 1984. Silvanus 11. Closing Poem: “How To Feel The Sap Rising.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com. Closing Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman from the album Singing with Saints and Mystics Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Behold I Make All Things New by Alana Levandoski from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living First Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations from the Heart, Beacon Press, 1999. page 106. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 18-19. Second Reading: Luke 15:23-24. Scripture quotation is from THE MESSAGE, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Prayers of Concern: Written by Cassidhe Hart Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose Closing Song: Breathe In by Peter Mayer from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Maria Wanders Through the Thorns by Kristy Karen Smith from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, (Year W) page 203. Reading of the Night: Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage, Conari Press, 2021. page xxix. Closing Poem: “Please can I have a God.” Excerpted from The Soul of a Pilgrim, copyright ©2015 by Christine Valters Paintner. Used with permission of the publisher, Sorin Books®, an imprint of Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, www.avemariapress.com. Closing Song: I Am Here by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.

All songs and texts used with permission Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner Opening Song: Welcome in the Stranger by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics First Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practice of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004, page 4. Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living Psalm Translation: Wilda C. Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church © 2021 Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY 10016, used by permission. (Year W) page 1-2. Second Reading: John 4:7-9a, 10. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Prayers of Concern: Written by Claudia Love Mair Sung Response: Tune by Betsey Beckman, lyrics by Christine Valters Paintner and Simon de Voil, sung by Simon de Voil and Alexa Sunshine Rose Closing Song: Promise to the Saints by Carmel Boyle from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics Closing Blessing: Written by Christine Valters Paintner to companion her book The Soul of a Pilgrim (Ave Maria Press) Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding DVD (each album has a DVD companion). Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.