words I can stand behind
I have been looking out for prayers/blessings/poems that say something I have not heard a million times. There is a place for those old, true words passed down and imbedded in our tradition but where ever it is I am not there now and I need something to straight-up strike me in order to feel like I can repeat it and mean it. The noon day prayer did that for me and so did a Franciscan Benediction I just found over at our interested commentor's blog. She found it first at Waving or Drowning.
-seth
-seth
posted by coemergentco at 10/31/2006 03:33:00 PM
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"O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity..."
that is an excerpt from a poem steve brought to one the meetings a few weeks ago.
i have been thinking in the same direction for some time and have come across a few things, mostly medieval catholic, or orthodox.
on the multiplicity of tradition-- tradition is anything but monolithic. i think that is so.
remind me, I have something for you. perhaps I will look around for some of the prayers that have struck me in the way you described.
Here is another one I liked from Faith and Theology (http://faith-theology.blogspot.com) a site I visit frequently:
An African Creed
We believe in the one High God, ho out of love created the beautiful world and everything good in it. He created man and wanted man to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the earth. We have known this High God in darkness, and now we know him in the light. God promised in the book of his word, the bible, that he would save the world and all the nations and tribes.
We believe that God made good his promise by sending his son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left his home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and man, showing the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his people, tortured and nailed hands and feet to a cross, and died. He lay buried in the grave, but the hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day, he rose from the grave. He ascended to the skies. He is the Lord.
We believe that all our sins are forgiven through him. All who have faith in him must be sorry for their sins, be baptized in the Holy Spirit of God, live the rules of love and share the bread together in love, to announce the good news to others until Jesus comes again. We are waiting for him. He is alive. He lives. This we believe. Amen.
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