Ignatian
Spirituality In Music
From-Here-To-There Glory
Faith is afoot on the Promised Land. A traveling people greets each new horizon with a heritage of memories, joy in God’s daily presence and longing for the kingdom yet to come. Three verses with a lively, “Israeli” feel. SMATB & Flute
Lyric Outtake
The bold imagination of people yet to be
is fashioning the heart
of a can-you-see-it dream.
Born high on the mount of all yet undone,
their longing, their vision:
the kingdom yet to come.
Refrain:
From-here-to-there glory horizons of grace.
Blessed, O, God, your people of faith
who traverse your will in joyful hope,
afoot on the promised land.
Quotes to Consider:
"… let us change in such a way that we may constantly evolve
towards what is better, being transformed from glory to glory, and thus
always improving and ever becoming more perfect by daily growth, and never
arriving at any limit of perfection." --Gregory of Nyssa (Healey
CS, 45)
"God's people since Abraham have been a pilgrim people… Even
when they were returned to their land, they were still in search of something
more, and they learned that the promised land and its splendid capital
Jerusalem were but promises of a yet greater future that God had in store
for them and for all the world" (Pfatteicher, 7).
Finished then thy new creation, Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see thy great salvation, Perfectly restored in thee!
Changed from glory into glory, Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
--Charles Wesley hymn, "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"
An ancient collect from the fifth or sixth century "gathers into
one the past, the present, and the future. By faith we appropriate and
keep alive the past; by hope we anticipate and already live in the future;
by acts of charity we make concrete and tangible the objects of faith
and hope" (Pfatteicher, 1).
"From the perspective of Christian morality, we need people that share our conviction that discipleship matters" (Gula, 67).
Scriptures for Meditation
| Ps 121 | The Lord keeps your coming in and your going out |
| Isa 43: 1-7 |
I am with you; I will gather you from all directions |
| Bar 5: 6-9 | Walking safely, escorted by God’s mercy and integrity |
| Deut 8: 2-18 | Remembering God’s generosity on the journey |
| Ex 16: 1-21 | God sends meat and bread to the complaining Israelites |
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