Prayers for Peace
Texts & Translations
Salutation of the Dawn | Eleanor Daley
Listen. Listen to the Salutation of the Dawn.
Look to this day, for it is Life, the very life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day, such is the salutation of the dawn.
Ave Maria in Memoriam | Francisco IbáÑez IrribarrÍa
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum;
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Ubi Caritas | Ola Gjeilo & Maurice Duruflé
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur.
Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Christ's love has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
Flight song | Kim André Arnesen
All we are, we have found in song:
you have drawn this song from us.
Songs of lives unfolding
fly overhead, cry overhead:
longing, rising from the song within.
Moving like the rise and fall of wings,
hands that shape our calling voice
on the edge of answers
you’ve heard our cry, you’ve known our cry:
music’s fierce compassion flows from you.
The night is restless with the sounds we hear,
is broken, shaken by the cries of pain:
for this is music’s inner voice,
saying, yes, we hear you,
all you who cry aloud,
and we will fly, answering you:
so our lives sing, sing,
wild we will fly,
wild in spirit we will fly.
Like a feather falling from the wing,
fragile as a human voice,
afraid, uncertain,
alive to love, we sing as love,
afraid, uncertain,
yet our flight begins as song.
Blessed are the peacemakers | Will Todd
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Peace I leave with you | René Clausen
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives I give unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Amen.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace | S. S. Wesley
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.
The darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day.
The darkness and the light to Thee are both alike.
God is light and with Him is no darkness at all.
Oh let my soul live and it shall praise Thee.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for evermore.
The peaceable kingdom | Randall Thompson
Say ye to the righteous
Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him:
For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him;
For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart,
But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart
And shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Woe unto them
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart rope!
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Woe unto them that art mighty to drink wine,
and men of strength to mingle strong drink!
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
that continue till night, till wine inflame them!
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
And wine are in their feasts;
But they regard not the work of the Lord,
Neither consider the operations of His hands.
Woe to the multitude of many people,
which make a noise like the noise of the seas!
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field,
Till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.
The noise of a multitude
The noise of the multitude in the mountains, like as a great people:
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together;
The Lord of Hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord,
And the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;
And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye shall not spare children.
Everyone that is found shall be thrust through;
And everyone that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt.
They shall be afraid: pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them;
They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth;
They shall be amazed at one another; their faces shall be as flames.
Howl ye
Howl ye: for the day of the Lord is at hand.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art dissolved.
The paper reeds by the brooks
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
And everything sown by the brooks,
Shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
But these are they
But these are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
And all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
Have ye not known?
Have ye not known? Have ye not heard?
Hath it not been told you from the beginning?
Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Ye shall have a song
Ye shall have a song,
As in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
And gladness of heart,
As when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord.
Prayer for peace | Eleanor Daley
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Spirit, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.