Christ - Our Love for All Seasons: A Liturgy of the Hours for Everyone

by Wright, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780809143276
• ISBN10: 0809143275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

Father Ralph Wright, a Benedictine monk, has contributed hymns of his own making to the one- and four-volume Liturgy of the Hours. In this book he includes his own prayers and poems and hymns-along with the Grail translation of the Psalter, forming a prayer book geared toward every liturgical season in the year-and each "season" of our lives (based on the sacraments). All the major feast days are featured with poems, hymns and psalms apposite to the occasion. This book also functions as a Poetry Supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours, whose all-too-brief poetry appendix has not been updated since 1975.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
From All Eternity	5	(2)
The One Thing Necessary	7	(4)
Seasons of the Day
Morning
Limelight	11	(1)
February Dawn	12	(1)
Everything Is in Reflection	12	(1)
Seamless	13	(1)
There Is a Sadness Dear to God	14	(1)
Cheery Thought on a Rainy Morning	15	(1)
In the Murk	15	(1)
As You Passed by Me	16	(1)
Rose	17	(1)
People Tell Me	18	(1)
The Artist	19	(1)
Noon
Redwoods Soar	20	(1)
You Are so Everywhere	21	(1)
O Extravagant	22	(2)
Evening
Leaf Fall	24	(1)
The Eve of Falling	25	(1)
In Memory of George	25	(1)
Reflections	26	(1)
Night
Night Crossing	27	(1)
I Listened to the Sound of Rain	28	(1)
Pyrogenetics	28	(1)
Persons	29	(1)
You Glove the Light	30	(1)
In Memory of Graham	30	(5)
Seasons of the Year
Advent
Waiting	35	(1)
God Comes	36	(2)
Christmas
Incarnation	38	(1)
The Father Utters	38	(1)
Ripples of Stillness	39	(1)
It's Snowing Silence Out of Nowhere Now	39	(1)
Midnight Robbery	40	(1)
The King	41	(1)
Incompetence	42	(1)
Lent
The Way Is Hard	43	(1)
Unsurprised by Darkness	44	(1)
Tongued with Fire	45	(1)
``As Your Heavenly Father''	46	(2)
Copyrighting	48	(1)
Passiontide
Friend	49	(1)
Unless a Grain	49	(1)
Passion	50	(1)
Nails	50	(2)
How Must It Be for God	52	(1)
Why Must It Be	53	(1)
The Mystery of Your Love	53	(1)
Infinite Patience	54	(1)
Gethsemane	55	(2)
Easter
Two Trees	57	(1)
Paschale	57	(1)
Pivotal	58	(1)
My Peace	59	(1)
Learn from Me	60	(1)
When the Last River	61	(1)
Pentecost
Pentecost	62	(1)
Come, O Spirit, Holy One	63	(2)
Ordinary Time
A Christian's Trust in Love---A Meditation	65	(1)
Wordspace	66	(1)
When I Think of Snow	67	(1)
I Will Write of Moments	68	(5)
Seasons of Our Lives
Birth
Conceive	73	(1)
Birthday Utterance	73	(2)
Every Christian Mother	75	(1)
When God Made You	75	(1)
Christina---five months	76	(1)
Childhood
Childhood	77	(1)
For Hugh---aged eight	78	(1)
Time Is God's Vast Sense of Humor	78	(2)
Adolescence
His Moods	80	(1)
Scrawl	81	(1)
``I Have Come to Spread Fire on the Earth and How I Wish It Were Blazing Already''	81	(1)
It's Dangerous to Be Me	82	(1)
O Hidden God	83	(1)
The Godmaker	83	(1)
Cry Agony	84	(1)
Clouds	85	(1)
You Are so Unbelievably	86	(1)
Jericho	87	(1)
Sympathy	88	(1)
My Heart	89	(1)
Marriage
Chefs d'oeuvres	90	(1)
Occurrence	90	(1)
I Am a Shell	91	(1)
Magnum Mysterium	91	(1)
Messiah	91	(2)
Fiona You	93	(1)
Great Calm	93	(1)
As I Have Loved You	94	(1)
Covenant	94	(2)
Consecration
Vowed	96	(1)
Souvenir	96	(1)
Man of God	97	(1)
What a Grace	98	(1)
Father Denis Waddilove	98	(1)
Retirement
Life Is Simpler toward Evening	99	(1)
Though Years Are Cold in Passing	100	(1)
Today	101	(1)
Ground for Joy	101	(1)
When I Write	102	(1)
He Told the Time in Light-years	102	(1)
A New Terror	103	(1)
I Have Suddenly Become	103	(1)
If Death	104	(1)
Being Older	104	(2)
Death/Resurrection
Doc---a memory	106	(1)
Scottie's Wake	106	(1)
The Feel of the Rain	107	(1)
Our Sins	108	(1)
Although Dust	108	(1)
The Tree	109	(1)
Rosepetal	109	(1)
Preston Dorris	110	(2)
In Memory of My Mother	112	(1)
When People	113	(1)
The Final Hint	113	(4)
Christ---Our Prayer for All Seasons
Introduction	117	(3)
The Word Became in Jesus	120	(3)
Seasons of the Day Ordinary Time
Morning
God Has Called Us out of Darkness	123	(1)
Psalms	124	(4)
New Testament Reading	128	(1)
Benedictus	129	(1)
Prayer	130	(1)
Noon
Almighty Ruler, God of Truth	131	(1)
Psalms	131	(4)
New Testament Reading	135	(1)
Prayer	135	(1)
Evening
O Blessed Light	136	(1)
Psalms	136	(3)
New Testament Reading	139	(1)
Magnificat	140	(1)
Prayer	141	(1)
Night
Before the Light of Evening Fades	142	(1)
Psalms	142	(3)
New Testament Reading	145	(1)
Nunc Dimittis	146	(1)
Prayer	146	(1)
Final Antiphon to the Blessed Virgin Mary	147	(4)
Seasons of the Year
Advent
O Gracious Maker of the Stars	151	(1)
Psalms	152	(2)
New Testament Reading	154	(1)
Prayer	155	(1)
Christmas
O Christ Redeemer, Lord of All	156	(1)
Psalms	157	(3)
New Testament Reading	160	(1)
Prayer	161	(1)
Lent
Make Speed, O God of Mercy, Lord	162	(1)
Psalm	162	(4)
New Testament Reading	166	(1)
Prayer	166	(1)
Passiontide
The Regal Dark Mysterious Cross	167	(1)
Psalm	168	(3)
New Testament Reading	171	(1)
Prayer	171	(1)
Easter
Sing of One Who Walks Beside Us	172	(1)
Psalms	173	(2)
New Testament Reading	175	(1)
Prayer	176	(1)
Ascension
O Jesus, Savior, Lord of All	177	(1)
Psalms	178	(2)
New Testament Reading	180	(1)
Prayer	180	(2)
Pentecost
Creating Spirit, Mighty Lord	182	(1)
Psalm	183	(3)
New Testament Reading	186	(1)
Prayer	186	(1)
Trinity Sunday
O Blessed Light	187	(1)
Psalms	187	(4)
New Testament Reading	191	(1)
Prayer	191	(1)
The Body and Blood of Christ
Weave a Song within the Silence	192	(1)
Psalms	193	(3)
New Testament Reading	196	(1)
Prayer	196	(2)
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
See How the Legion of Our Sin	198	(1)
Psalms	199	(3)
New Testament Reading	202	(1)
Prayer	203	(1)
Christ The King
Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty Word	204	(1)
Psalms	205	(3)
New Testament Reading	208	(1)
Prayer	209	(1)
Johannine Cycle	210	(1)
Guide for Praying the Liturgy of the Hours	211