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[Dan and I believe this song of lament is particularly relevant as we face pandemics, climate change, and host of other existential challenges. So we have decided not to charge for this track. Feel free to download!]

We continue in prayer for our world by singing ‘Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison’ (Lord have mercy, Christ, have mercy). But does God hear our prayers?
To insist that the answer is ‘yes’ of course sounds hollow to the parent who cares for a disabled child. Maybe you yourself are facing personal tragedy? Trite answers are not helpful. To conceive of God as some kind of celestial turbine waiting for enough prayer-flow to turn the blades and generate a response is also nonsense. Would a God who claims to be love be slow to respond to even the faintest cry of a child?
The heart of prayer, the heart of Christianity, is communication—communion. It is a relationship: the divine embrace of lover and beloved; the drawing near of creature to creator, the Father of Lights. Books could be (and have been) written questioning how prayer to an omniscient God could change anything. Suffice it to say—if nothing else—that it changes the praying heart, and changed hearts are agents of change. To draw near to God in prayer is a choice to connect with the author of life, to feel not only his power but his incomparable, essential love. In the knowledge that even suffering and death cannot separate us from this divine love, prayer brings profound hope to the most hopeless.
It is through the communion of prayer that our hearts begin to beat in time with his; in the kiss of love the frost of hate melts; it is in the embrace of intimacy that we hear the divine whisper and our hearts are at one with his. To be held in the arms of divine love is to know peace. In a world of chaos, it is to find the eye of the storm.
As we unite our prayers to cry for the wounded world you can be sure that ripples will spread across the surface of infinity and touch the divine heart. But the profound reality is that the reciprocal touch of love will change our hearts, and our world, for ever.

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Radiation cloud
Poison in her breath
Invisible as love
East of Eden wind
Such a cold caress
So venomous this kiss

Show your mercy to our dying world
We cry out to you to be healed
Show your mercy to our dying world
We cry out to you

Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison

Intervention—the negation of desecration
Resuscitation—resurrection of creation
For salvation we cry to you

Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison

For compassion, consolation, absolution
From perversion, abomination and pollution
For salvation we cry to you

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from The Rock Mass, released February 4, 2014
Soprano saxophone: Pavol Hoďa

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John de Jong UK

I grew up with a slightly schizophrenic interest in both English and American folk-blues and traditional English hymns. I've always been passionate about the acoustic guitar, but in recent recent years my tastes have expanded somewhat. The Rock Mass is evidence of this. Hope you enjoy the music! ... more

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