Some is in a chant-like mode or set as a straight verse mode. Most of the music I have set is very simple indeed. To quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘they saw earth crammed with heaven, and every common bush a re with God.’ All was seem as gift and an offering in gratitude to God.Īs I began to set these sacred words to music I realised that I was standing on Holy Ground I had to keep reminding myself of this oral tradition of simplicity which would enable the words to be easily picked up, memorised and taken into the heart thus becoming prayer. There was a sense of the sacred in the most ordinary and mundane things that they did like kindling a re, bathing a baby, cooking a meal, growing the food that they ate and so on. I began to be aware of the mystery which was rooted in this ‘down to earth’ spirituality, and I found it is very bound up in the ordinary and familiar. They recognised God as Trinity-Father, Son and Sacred Spirit which gave an immediate and deeply rooted spiritual reality to their lives that permeated everything they did.Īs we began to go through some of the prayers, I was caught and held by the beauty of these verses and by the rhythmic vitality which pulsated through them. These people of the Isles lived quite naturally in a state of prayer. Prayer was the daily rhythm which marked these people’s lives- prayers from dawn to dusk, prayers for the night, prayers from birth to death. It has been a great joy to work once again with Tim Ruffer, Head of Publishing at the Royal School of Church Music and to share in his enthusiasm and encouragement for this collection.
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The writings and prayers were recorded from a world in which people were ‘full of hymns and prayers, full of music and songs, full of joy and melody and innocent merriment.’ The fruit of these travels was written up in his famous book, Carmina Gadelica. This led me to the writings of Alexander Carmichael, who for sixty years pursued his life-long passion for pilgrimages to the Outer Hebrides. I was first introduced to Celtic Spirituality through the writings and beautiful prayers of David Adam. What powerful and passionate words these are of St Patrick as he describes life lived through the invocation of the Trinity! I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession to the oneness of the Creator of Creation… I arise today through strength of heaven, light of sun, radiance of moon, splendour of re, speed of lightning, swiftness of wind, depth of sea, stability of earth, firmness of rock… Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me… I arise today.”
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