Countless prayers of faithful people (Thurlow Weed)
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- (Posted 2014-12-09) CPDL #33630:
- Editor: Thurlow Weed (submitted 2014-12-09). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 24 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Countless prayers of faithful people
Composer: Thurlow Weed
Lyricist: Michael Hudson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn for Advent IV Meter: 87. 87. D
Language: English
Instruments: Unknown
First published: 2014
Description: 4th Sunday of Advent, Year B
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Original text and translations
English text
1. Countless prayers of faithful people
weighted in a cumbrous world
found an answer as an angel
met an open-hearted girl.
Not a master of a palace
where the airs of empire swirl,
not a young or hardened warrior
but an open-hearted girl.
2. All the years of desperate longing
of a people to be free
found an eloquent expression
in her simple, Let it be.
Not in battle or in barter
for a Caesar's guarantee,
but in prayerful conversation
and a simple, Let it be.
3. What gift, now, and whenever
life feels barren, hope consumed,
to recall that once a woman
welcomed God within her womb.
We see better now, and always,
faith, responsive, making room,
be-cause once a woman, Mary,
welcomed God within her womb
From Songs for the Cycle ©2004 by Michael Hudson.
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