All songs and texts used with permission

Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner, arranged by Melinda Thomas

Opening Song: Viriditas by Betsey Beckman from the album Singing with Saints and Mystics

Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living

Interpretation of Psalm 65 by Rev. Christine Robinson

Reading of the Night from Courtney Hall Lee, Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017,)

Closing Song: O Viridissima Virga written by Hildegard of Bingen (sung by Laura Ash) from the album Birthing the Holy: Singing with Mary and the Sacred Feminine 

Closing Blessing written by Christine Valters Paintner from Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and  Renewal 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.

Birthing the Holy Prayer Cycle: Day 5 Evening Prayer

All songs and texts used with permission

Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner

Opening Song:  I Lay Open (Psalm 25) by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Trust

First Reading: Howard Thurman, Meditations from the Heart, Beacon Press, 1999. page 174.

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 75.

Second Reading: Genesis 12: 1-2. 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 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: Open Hand by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers

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 except for “I Lay Open” by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan (see credits for source). 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.

The Soul of a Pilgrim Prayer Cycle: Day 2 Morning Prayer

Opening Prayer: Written by Christine Valters Paintner

Opening Song:  Brigid’s Birds by Margaret McLarty from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers

First Reading: Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practice of the Black Church, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004. page 41.

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 97.

Second Reading: Exodus 15:19-21. 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: Peregrine by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album The Soul’s Slow Ripening: Songs for Celtic Seekers

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.

The Soul of a Pilgrim Prayer Cycle: Day 3 Morning Prayer

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.

The Love of Thousands Prayer Cycle: Day 4 Morning

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.

The Love of Thousands Prayer Cycle: Day 4 Evening

For Free - (Live)

Recorded live at The Globe in Glossop.  Written by Joni Mitchell

Vocals -Pauline Alexander
Guitar - Sandy Stanage

2017

Live at The Globe, Glossop 2017

For Free (Live)

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The Gowan Robed. An interpretation of a beautiful song by Tom Fairnie.  I highly recommend checking out his work at the website below.
https://tomfairnie.com/home-news

Written by Tom Fairnie and Bob Shields
Guitar by Sandy Stanage
Recorded by Stephen Thomson












Writers - Tom Fairnie and Bob Shields

Recording on Wednesday 25th April 2018

The Gowan Robed

Live recording from Dow's bar in Glasgow as part of a 'Celtic Music Radio' fundraiser.   (2014)  A cover of the Eva Cassidy version of 'Over The Rainbow'. 

Pauline Alexander - Vocals
Edwin Gallacher - Acoustic guitar

Dow's Bar Celtic Music Radio Fundraiser

Over The Rainbow  (Live from Dow's Bar Glasgow)

A live performance within the gardens of Macdonald Houston House hotel for a wedding ceremony. 

Song written by Mike Scott. Recorded by Stephen Thomson.  Photo by Joanne McAlpine.

How Long Will I Love You

Female vocals with acoustic guitar backing.

MARY DID YOU KNOW?

Heather Innes has been singing professionally for 30 years and has recorded 12 albums - solo and with other singers and one album with poet/author Margaret Gillies Brown.  She currently sings and tours solo a capella. 

Heather's forte is unaccompanied song and she sings with great feeling and delicacy in her fine clear voice. Her singing has been described as peaceful and calming to listen to and her solo concerts as sheer relaxation after a hard day at the office! In a concert she takes you through the gamut of emotions, from powerful ballad to gentle lullaby, with a timely sense of humour in between.

Heather has sung at folk clubs, festivals, concerts and worship services in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Denmark, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, solo and with various musicians.  In Thailand Jacynth Hamill and Heather took their duo Caim to the Karen Burmese refugee camps and to Umphang orphange on the Thai/ Burmese border for two years in succession.



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