Psalm 151
Jerry Ulrich/6 Dec 2008
Praise God.
Praise God Within.
Praise God - all lands and tribes and tongues.
Praise the God of sky and sea
In every thing that Is
that Was, and Shall Be.
Praise the God of One
Spirit manifest
in creatures great and small.
of Beauty, Truth, and Love,
dwelling within
All. praise god…
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Book of Lamentations/Hebrew Bible
I
O all you who pass by the way, attend, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow.
For he has made me a vintage, just as the Lord has spoken in the day of his furious anger.
See, O Lord, that I am in tribulation. My bowels have been disturbed,
my heart has been subverted within me, for I am filled with bitterness.
Outside, the sword puts to death, and at home there is a similar death.
For this I weep, and my eyes bring forth water.
For the consoler has been far away from me, changing my soul.
My sons have become lost, because the enemy has prevailed.
You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.
II
I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
III
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
Only in Sleep
Sara Teasdale
Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,
Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,
Annie with ringlets warm and wild.
Only in sleep Time is forgotten --
What may have come to them, who can know?
Yet we played last night as long ago,
And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.
The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild --
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
Gloria
Latin Sung Mass Ordinary
Inclusive language adaption: Jerry Ulrich
I
Glory be to God in the highest. And on earth, peace, to all persons of good will.
II
We praise You; we bless You; we worship You; we glorify You.
We give thanks to You for Your great glory.
III
O Sovereign God, Heavenly Creator, God the Almighty.
IV
O Jesus Christ, the only begotten of God. Holy God, Lamb of God, Child of the Creator.
You take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.
V
You sit at the right hand of God, have mercy upon us. For You only art holy.
You only art God, You only are the most high, Jesus Christ.
Together with the Holy Ghost in the glory of God the Creator. Amen.