Wednesday, December 26, 2007

After the Figgy Pudding: Pie Jesu

OK! Ship-shape! Hop to! This extra week we have in here is not all slack time, you know. No good making New Year resolutions at midnight on December 31, or bleary-eyed the next morning. Time to think and plan! As you wait in airports, as you ski, as you hunt, as you clean, as you exchange and re-gift, as you write thank you notes, as you become bored with the pointsettia and watch the orchid or the paper-white narcissus sprout, as you work or as you kick back - let that seed of renewed determination sprout and grow! Get ready for the diet, the exercise, the balanced checkbook, the enhanced job performance. Above all, pray for loving-kindness.

For focusing, I heartily recommend a good boy's choir- I have not been able to find a very particular version that I long to hear again, but this is so close- Oliver Putland singing Pie Jesu- just cut and paste and hear it through to the end as you do the dishes, get dressed, or relax and stare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXKE5hYWJI&feature=related

Eat and drink moderately! Be safe! Amen!

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Pie Jesu
Qui tollis peccata mundi
Dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei
Dona eis requiem sempiternam

Merciful Jesus
Who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest
Lamb of God
Grant them everlasting rest

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