Ignatian
Spirituality In Music
In Your Holy Presence
A gentle, prayerful description of every-day life in a world imbued with God. Holy Presence is experienced in sunrise, colleagues, prayer, Eucharist, dancing, stories, and loneliness. Six verses. SMATB
Lyric Outtake
Your hand upon our hand, Lord,
your Spirit in the eye--of all we serve,
and all who labor at our side.
Blessing the gift of our work…
Refrain:
in your holy presence,
in your holy presence, O God.
Quotes to Consider:
"Nothing is more practical than finding God… What you are in
love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will
decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your
evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what
breaks your heart… Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide
everything." --Pedro Arrupe S.J.
"We learn at last to realize that waking, eating, loving, sleeping
are supreme prayers…" --Caryll Houselander (Healey MSW, 126)
"The contemplative experience we are talking about is neither ethereal
nor 'extraordinary.' It is as earthy as muddy boots and as much involved
with life" (Barry, 63).
"What is meditating on Christ? It is simply this, thinking habitually and constantly of Him and of His deeds and sufferings. It is to have Him before our minds as One whom we may contemplate, worship, address when we rise up, when we lie down, when we eat and drink, when we are at home and abroad, when we are working, or walking, or at rest, when we are alone, and again when we are in company; this is meditating. And by this, and nothing short of this, will our hearts come to feel as they ought." --John Henry Newman (Healey MSW, 192)
Scriptures for Meditation
| Lk 24: 13-35 | Walking with Christ; recognizing him in breaking bread |
| Mt 18: 19-20 | Wherever two or three gather in my name |
| Rom 1: 19-21 | God is plainly known through created things |
| Rom 8: 28 | All things work together for good |
| Rom 8: 35-39 | With God in hardship, distress, famine, life, death |
| Sir 39: 32-35 | Everything proves good in its appointed time |
| Eccl 3: 1-8 | For everything there is a season |
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