Credits:
All songs and texts used with permission
Opening Prayer written by Christine Valters Paintner
Opening Song: Surrender by Deirdre Ni Chinneide
Psalm Opening and Doxology by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Interpretation of Psalm 81 by Rev. Christine Robinson
Reading of the Night from Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
New York: Doubleday Religion (2009).
Closing Poem by Christine Valters Paintner, Dreaming of Stones. Paraclete Press (2019).
Closing Song: Lullaby by Margaret McLarty
Please note: All of the Opening and Closing Songs are published on CDs in the Abbey of the Arts collection. In addition, these songs 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). The Psalm Opening and Doxology also have accompanying congregational gestures. The audio and video recordings of these are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.
