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All titles Copyright 1999 by Athanasius Schaefer.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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I can't explain what happened, It doesn't translate into words At least not any I can say I lost my mind. All flesh was scattered to the 4 winds and the multi dimensionless array Moving down the silent highway Empty darkness distant light Following those on the road alone I just can't say it. Sold as a slave into the pit of destruction chained entertainment for the Beast Devouring all ordered motion Stopping in Stagnation And rendering decay I beheld the flashing crossroads Random access infinite Leading to a destiny unknown I still can't say it. I heard a voice I heard the word I walked right past my captors The Gates of Brass weren't even Locked The Iron bars swung open wide Then I sensed His radiant presence Beckoning me Forward His Beatific Smile Walking back along the highway Sunlit blue skies overhead Liberated by the Word of God Now I can say it. Back among the physical The realm of cause and Action Marveling at the sun that lights my face Hiding from assassins And the politics of Reason Are they truly ready for God's Grace God's Grace (repeat)
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I seek refuge in you O Lord Do not let me ever be put to shame In your righteousness, deliver me Incline your ear to me Rescue me speedily Be a rock of refuge for me A fortress to save me You are my Rock You are my fortress Take me out of the net that is hidden for me For you are my refuge Into your hand I commit my spirit You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols But I trust in the Lord I rejoice in your steadfast love Because you have seen my affliction You have seen my adversities And kept me from the hand of the enemy In a broad place have you set my feet I am in distress; be gracious to me My eye wastes away from grief My soul and body also My life is spent with sorrow My years with sighing My strength fails from my misery And my bones waste away I am the scorn Of all my adversaries A horror to my neighbors An object of dread to all my friends Those who see me in the street They flee from me I have passed out of mind like one who is dead I have become like a broken vessel For I hear the whispering The whispering of many Terror is all around As they scheme together against me As they plot to take my life But I trust in you O Lord I say :"You are my God" My times are in your hand Deliver me from the hand of my enemies Let your face shine upon your servant Save me in your steadfast love Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord For I call on you Let the wicked be put to shame Let them go dumbfounded to Sheol Let the Lying lips be stilled That speak insolently against the righteous With pride and contempt O how abundant is your goodness For those who respect and take refuge in you In the sight of everyone. In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots, safe from contentious tongues. Blessed be the Lord In wonder has he shown his steadfast love for me When I was beset as a city under siege. I had said in my alarm I am driven far from your sight But you heard my supplications When I cried out to you for help Love the Lord, All you his Saints The Lord preserves the faithful, But abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily Be strong, And let your heart take courage, All you who wait for the Lord.
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Wakes up in the morning He makes a choice Choose to be a victim To give evil a voice Or to learn from life Point out the positive That's the bottom line He chooses how to live Into this environment Born into this world It's so easy to do evil And so hard to do good Easy to hurt others And so hard to forgive Easily suspicious Trust is elusive Adam and Eve Made that first mistake In paradise So long ago But Jesus Christ Washed it all away He gives us life He gives us hope. Starting off for work She makes a choice Suffer at the hand of jerks Drown in all that noise Or as mediator Create harmony A unifying center For many melodies It's easy to produce Forces of division Division in the world Division within We may not be guilty As the courts resolve Of the sins of others But we're always involved. We are blessed With the power To reshape This world we love And to Imbue it With new meaning From God above Don't misuse Your power In order to Fashion instruments Of greed and corruption Of ugliness and destruction Made in the image of One God in Trinity We achieve salvation Interdependently Any action done by One of humanity Affects all the others In solidarity Love implies Freedom Without freedom There would be no sin But without freedom Man would not be In God's image Or God's communion
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Trinity!! Higher than any being, Any divinity, any goodness Guide of Christians In the wisdom of heaven Lead us up beyond unknowing and light Up to the farthest, highest peak Of mystic scripture Where the mysteries of God's Word Lie simple, absolute and unchangeable In the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Amid the deepest shadow They pour overwhelming light On what is most manifest Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen They completely fill our sightless minds With treasures beyond all beauty As you look for a sight of the mysterious things, Leave behind you everything perceived and understood, Everything perceptible and understandable, All that is not and all that is, and With your understanding laid aside, Strive upward as much as you can toward union With him who is above all being and knowledge. By and undivided and absolute abandonment Of yourself and everything, Shedding all and freed from all, You will be uplifted to the ray of the divine shadow Which is above everything that is. The Word of God is vast and minuscule The Gospel is wide-ranging and yet restricted. The good cause of all is both eloquent and taciturn, Indeed wordless. It has neither word nor act of understanding, Since it is on a plane above all this, And it is made manifest Only to those who travel through foul and fair, Who pass beyond the summit of every holy ascent, Who leave behind them every divine light, Every voice, Every word from heaven, And who plunge into the darkness where, as scripture proclaims, there dwells the One who is beyond all things. And yet, you do not meet God Himself, But contemplate, not him who is invisible, But rather where he dwells. This means that the holiest and highest of the things perceived with the eye of the body or the mind are but the rationale which presupposes all that lies below the Transcendent One Through them, however, his unimaginable presence is shown, walking the heights of those holy places to which the mind at least can rise. But then you break free of them, Away from what sees and is seen, And plunge into the truly mysterious darkness of unknowing. Here, renouncing all that the mind may conceive, Wrapped entirely in the intangible and the invisible, You belong completely to him who is beyond everything. Here, being neither oneself nor someone else, You are supremely united by a completely unknowing inactivity of all knowledge, And know beyond the mind By knowing nothing. The cause of all is above all and is not inexistent, Lifeless, speechless, mindless. It is not a material body, And hence has neither shape nor form, Quality, quantity, or weight. It is not in any place and can neither be seen nor be touched. It is neither perceived nor is it perceptible. It suffers neither disorder nor disturbance And is overwhelmed by no earthly passion. It is not powerless nor subject to the disturbances Caused by sense perception. It endures no deprivation of light. It passes thought no change, decay, division, loss No ebb and flow, nothing of which the senses may be aware. None of all this can either be identified with it, Nor attributed to it. It is not soul or mind, Nor does it possess imagination, conviction, speech, or understanding. Nor is it speech per se, understanding per se. It cannot be grasped by understanding since it is neither knowledge nor truth. It is not matter, nor is it eternity or time. It is not immovable, moving or at rest. It has no power, it is not power, nor is it light. It does not live, nor is it life. It is not kingship. It is not wisdom. It is neither one nor oneness, divinity nor goodness. Nor is it a spirit, In the sense in which we understand that term. It is not sonship or fatherhood. It falls neither within the predicate of being nor of nonbeing. Darkness and light, error and truth, It is none of these. Free from limitation, it is beyond limitation. It is beyond assertion. It is beyond denial.
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High on the Watchtower The horsemen ride in pairs The master is desolate as is the slave The mistress is desolate so is the maid The city of Chaos is broken down The fortified city is in ruins Oh you destroyer you treacherous one When you have ceased to destroy You will be destroyed By their fruits you can tell If they serve heaven or hell Yes, you'll know them by their fruits Do they sow confusion or do they tell the truth With their words do they show you the way Or do their lies lead you astray Do they serve the word of Jesus Christ Or themselves with their own lies Do they seek God to exult Or establish their personality as cult Their lies are knives stuck in your back These hypocrites are always on the attack They humiliate you to make themselves feel better. Sins against the Spirit will not be forgiven Lord Take this anger away from me Before it destroys my soul Teach me to forgive my enemies Before my soul grows cold. Free me from envy and from greed Let my life be satisfied God take my hatred and set me free Revenge is an empty lie The chains of hatred are freezing me Please give heed to my cry Help me attain perfect inner peace And help thousands all around
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You knew the wonder of the morning sun That Shines on high in the Arctic Dawn Born to the merchant life Serpukhov You Entered Trinity-Sergius Hermitage The Queen of Heaven shone her light on you When that fatal throat abscess was removed You went to serve Elder Nazary At Lake Logoda's Valaam Monastery You were appointed to the mission's task To preach the gospel to Alaska You founded New Valaam on Spruce Island Near Kodiak's Church of the Resurrection Your superhuman strength distinguished you As did your life in ascetic truth You in your solitude were not alone You knew the Angels and their silent tones You interceded for the native rights You would not give up without a gentle fight You labored long in the lonely night To comfort those in the fever's plight You were a teacher of the civilized Who recognized your lessons as most wise You liked to talk about eternity Of salvation and our destinies. You kept the fires and the floods at bay Every animal listened to the words you'd say The flood waters began to rise There was nowhere on the island to hide Mary the Mother of our God Interceded with a nod You placed her icon on a bank of sand And drew a line between flood and land The Queen of Heaven shone her light thru you And let you show the world the truth Of Jesus Christ and the Trinity Three Persons in one Unity.
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Three days after His Crucifixion Servants of the Master The Myrrh bearing women Hastened to His Tomb To preserve with Spices Found His grave was opened By divine devices Soldiers set to guard Now to another zone The Angel of the Lord Rolled away the stone The Mystery of the Ages Confounding worldly sages Early in the morning At the break of dawn Mary Magdalene The Myrrh bearing women The Angel said to them Shining like lightning Why seek the living As among the dead See the empty tomb Try to understand Jesus Christ is Risen Destroying Death’s command Resurrecting all from eternal rest Conquering Death by Death As the Dawn was breaking And night’s dark powers wane The myrrh bearing women Mary Magdalene The saw the empty tomb It all seemed so absurd Like the Virgin’s womb The Angel said these words Tell His Disciples Of the resurrection Inform the Apostles Of their new direction Rolling the Stone away For you the new creation awaits
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