Antiphons—responses to the Beloved in scripture
l. Luke 19: 1-10
I want to free what waits within me
I want to sing you as no one ever has
May what I do flow from me like a river
Streaming through widening channels to the open sea
(paraphrase of rilke)
2 . psalm 50/Luke 19
I only know you in my heart, o love
by honoring the Love that you declare for me
I welcome Your desire to stay in me
May You Be here by dwelling in my being.
3. Luke 12: 35-40
May I be open to Your presence in this day, o love
I light this candle so that I can see you
In the darkness, may you find me opening
As I await your coming here to Be in me
3. acts 17:16-34
may I carry this truth with me through this day, o love
that you are with me in each moment
may my silences and songs be filled with reverence
as I receive and bear you into being
4. Colossians 4:2-18
may I be present to your prayer within me love
may I be mindful of your yearning
may I breathe what labors to be born in me
as I cry out may I proclaim your beauty
your thirst for being never dies in me
from deep, You stir me into being
these urgencies of heart relay Love’s messages
reminding me who I am meant to be
my yearning is Your yearning to be free in me
my prayer Your yearning to be sung
mystery of Christ, proclaimed in my humanity
in chains, I bring You into being.
5.Psalm 91/rilke paraphrase
I yearn to be held in the great hands of your heart, o love
oh let them take me now into your holiness
I place these fragments of my life into your heart, o love
For You to spend however you desire
6. I cherish this place where we meet as sacred, love
I welcome you inside to make love to me
Come fill me with your loving presence
That I may overflow with what you’re birthing
7. may I soften at your touch, o love
may I open at your touch, o love
may I expand at your touch, o love
may I flow from your touch, o love
8. Matthew 23:1-12
May I hear the whisper of Your Being in this song, o love
May you be the Song singing within me
Open me to You that I may flow from You
Receiving You how’ere you come before me
May I Be Love throughout my day
May I see Love throughout my day
May there be no here nor there, no better/worse
May my Being and my doing be as One.
9. Thessalonians 2
O my Love, may the One who comes into my home
Build up my house
So that what is birthed in me
Is you.
Evensongs
9. Response to Song –Beautiful darkness/matthew 25
you come into the dark of my unknowing, Love
I can but trust I’m sacred to You
When I can’t see you, you behold me
Cradling the light I am within your holiness
10.Though it is dark, o love, my heart’s awake
I yearn to sing you, love, to flow into you
Of you, for you, to you, in you, I sing
May you receive my song into your silence
11. My song in your silence
My silence in your song
We sing
13. 1 Peter 1:3-9
May I embrace the glorious joy of being in Love with life.
May I hold this secret tenderlyl
For my soul is saved through this embrace
May my soul deepen in peace
May my soul expand in understanding
May my soul overflow in Love
May I bring forth this truth into my days
May I flow from this opening in me
May I bear love and compassion into being
May I welcome all in the name of Love
May I face the darkness and see light—waiting to shine on me as I on it.
May I fall into the abyss of unknowing, into the arms of Love
May I know nothing
May I trust only the mystery of love.
J: I stand at the threshold and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Rev 3:20)
T: I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one (Song of Solomon 5:2)
A: Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my doors,
waiting at my doorway. For whoever finds me finds life. ( Proverbs 8: 34-35)
V: O Love, you are my Beloved
I long for You
My soul thirsts for You
All that is within me thirsts
As in a dry and barren land
Where there is no water
I call out to You in my heart
Sensing your power and glory
Your steadfast Love is life to me
And my lips will praise you
I will radiate your love as long as I live
Becoming a blessing to others as I flow from you (Psalm 63, Merrill)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst to be in the fully alive in the aliveness of God for they will be filled (Matthew 5:6, Bourgeault)
We know that the whole creation is groaning as in the pains of childbirth. And we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:22-23)
He yearned to see who Jesus was, but he couldn’t because of the crowd. Jesus said, “Come down. I want to stay at your house today”
May I become like a hollow reed
So You may play your melody through me
For I long to be attuned to the great song of the Cosmos,
To know the song of inner praise!
O, that I might hear the Divine Melody within
And give birth to a dancing star (Psalm119, zayin
Merrill)
May the harvest be abundant, Love
As you reap the blessing that my life has sown
Overflowing you my hunger dissipates
As I bear the fruit of our Love ripening
Your pour yourself into my life, o Love
Requesting only that I do the same
That my heart embracing all this tenderness
May spill itself into your eagerness
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