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Night of Darkness Ending
05:21
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Held
06:51
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glass
these threaded stones
woven
stitched with heat
and felted fast by cooling
to hold
trios of molecules
this morning poured
into my body
shell
this floating home
I climb
spiral stairs
to wall and door and floor and breezeways
these rooms
of calcium carbonate
this morning's hold
cradles my body
Fall into place
As air into the lung
Fall into place
a river to the sea
Put me in my place
As a kite that skates the wind
the tree
is moving
river of light and leaf
this morning's net
to catch my body
Fall into place
You catch my body
Fall into place
As air into the lung
Fall into place
You catch my body
Fall into place
A river to the sea
Fall into place
You catch my body
Fall into place
As a kite that skates the wind
Fall into place
You catch my body
Fall into place
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Cumulonimbus
01:11
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Stations: Is It I
04:21
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Texts spoken by different parties in the week leading up to Jesus’ death. Words of prayer, cursing, praise, fury, hope, despair - from disciples, politicians, priests, crowds, soldiers, the curious. Everyone is speaking but Jesus.
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Hail, King!
Hail, King!
Hail, King!
Greetings! Good health! Peace! Long life to you, O King!
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Stations: Second Crow
05:30
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Two columns of spoken text are interleaved with one another. All texts are the words of Peter, either from the Gospel accounts or from his own letters. Both columns end with the same question: “To whom shall we go?” From the vantage point of love, this is a statement of devotion. From the vantage point of denial, it's a cry of despair. A third column of text is the soprano, playing the role of the morning rooster crowing twice, observing Peter.
PETER:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born anew to a living hope.
To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed.
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life...
Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you. Though all become deserters because of you, I will never desert you.
Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you. I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.
It is good that we are here.
It is good that we are here. You are the Holy One of God.
Lord, to whom shall we go?
DENIAL
I do not know him.
I do not know or understand what you are talking about.
I never laid eyes on this man you’re talking about.
I am not.
I do not know the man.
I do not know the man.
To whom shall we go?
Lord, to whom shall we go?
...to whom shall we go?
ROOSTER:
Where will you go?
Where will, where will you go?
Where will you go?
Where will you go? Oh where?
Where can you go?
Where can you go? Where can, where can you go?
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Stations: Casting Lots
02:26
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spoken:
The LORD answer you in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob protect you.
May he send you help from the sanctuary, and give you support from Zion. May he remember all your sacrifices. May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your plans. May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand. Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the LORD our God. They will collapse and fall; but we shall rise and stand upright.
Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.
sung:
It is finished.
It is finished.
Into your hands,
In your hands, in your hands, my spirit.
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Altostratus
01:12
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(from ‘O Emmanuel’ by Malcolm Guite)
Make a womb of all this wounded world,
Make a womb of all this wounded world,
and make a womb of all this wounded world.
Come to be born, to bear us to our birth
Make these rags of time
Our swaddling bands
O hidden spring of light,
Come to us Wisdom,
Come unspoken Name,
Come Root, and Key, and King, and holy Flame,
O quickened little wick so tightly curled
Be folded with us into time and place,
Unfold for us the mystery of grace.
Make a womb of all this wounded world,
Make a womb of all this wounded world,
and make a womb of all this wounded world.
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Stratocumulus
01:18
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13. |
Dust From Dust To
04:03
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Lenticular
01:24
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Of What We Are Made
05:14
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Mammatus
02:04
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18. |
PRIMEMOVER
06:31
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19. |
Contrails
01:09
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