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<\/a><\/p>\nToday\u2019s Post: \u201cO Dayspring\u201d
\nTo listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HAUzuw1l-7U<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday December 22, \u00a0Antiphon 6<\/p>\n \u201cI have found you in the story again\u201d<\/p>\n Joy Harjo published another book of poetry two years ago, \u201cConflict Resolution for Holy Beings.\u201d \u00a0 A young friend \u2014 living in immediate grief when one of his soul friends died suddenly, age 24, while out running\u00a0\u2014 he, \u00a0one of\u00a0a close group of young friends living this same loss \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0pointed me toward this new poem from one of my oldest soul friends.\u00a0 \u201cFall Song,\u201d is a new song alongside \u201cO Antiphon 6: \u00a0O Rex Gentium,\u201d one of the oldest writings that have appeared in the Work Day\/Hard Time poetry list. \u00a0Joy Harjo and the anonymous medieval artist both touch vulnerable contact points that require tenderness to work their mysteries in a demanding world.<\/p>\n Best to read both poems out loud, with pauses. \u00a0\u00a0Blessings this 22nd of December, the day when, in our northern hemisphere, daylight begins to tip a little bit longer after touching its deepest darkness yesterday \u00a0– – the first day a little longer and the sun a little higher in the sky for us who live in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s Post \u2013 \u00a0Joy Harjo,\u00a0\u201cFall Song\u201d<\/p>\n It is a dark fall day. poem by Joy Harjo \u2013 Nov 13, 2015 john sj<\/p>\n Antiphon #6 \u00a0 \u201cO Rex Gentium\u201d<\/p>\n O Leader of many peoples, To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UwDdEQCtIF4<\/a><\/p>\n p.s. I\u2019m posting these two antiphons from Baden PA, home of many soul friends of 40 years, sisters of St. Joseph and former sisters of St. Joseph and some dear friends populate the Motherhouse cemetery with tender memories. \u00a0I\u2019ll leave for home tomorrow morning c. 10:00. \u00a0Depending on weather I should pull into our driveway on campus about 4:00. \u00a0 Have a blest weekend, anointed with the loves of your life and with stillness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 21 – winter solstice \u00a0Antiphon 5 Friday , December 21 \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0O Oriens\u201d At Detroit\u2019s latitude we will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, 14 hours and 57 minutes of night time. Our shortest day. Today\u2019s O … Continue reading
\nThe earth is slightly damp with rain.
\nI hear a jay.
\nThe cry is blue.
\nI have found you in the story again.
\nIs there another word for \u2018\u2018divine\u2019\u2019?
\nI need a song that will keep sky open in my mind.
\nIf I think behind me, I might break.
\nIf I think forward, I lose now.
\nForever will be a day like this
\nStrung perfectly on the necklace of days.
\nSlightly overcast
\nYellow leaves
\nYour jacket hanging in the hallway
\nNext to mine.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe New York Times Magazine<\/p>\n
\nO Leader desired by many peoples
\nO Corner Stone who holds such different peoples together
\nCome and save us human beings whom you formed out of the earth\u2019s clay.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n