The Love of Thousands Prayer Cycle: Day 5 Evening

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.