NIGHT PRAYER: Monday 3/3

Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox.  

    Photo by Juan Rodriguez

Everyone photographs the sun's rising and setting

    but not often enough, Lord,

        do we look for lunar beauty...

But this is the week of the moon, Lord:

   by its light and phases we reckon

      the timing of seasons and feasts...

Easter: 

   the first Sunday

      after the first full moon

         after the spring equinox...

 

How fitting, Lord, 

that the heavens set the date for our Easter joy:

    the moon, 

       drawing its cool silver light 

          from the heat of the sun...

    the moon,

       waiting for springtime's turn

          at equal night and day;

    the moon,

       full of Passover glory,

              awaiting the Paschal Lamb...

 

On this second day of Holy Week,

   shine your light, O God, 

      on my soul, my faith, my prayer 

on my waiting for your Son to rise again, 

   in my heart and in the world

      with the gift, the peace of everlasting life...

Protect me, Lord, with the moon's clear light

   and watch over me while I sleep

that awake I might keep watch for you

   and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

(Tonight you have a choice between two instrumental

settings of moonlight: a Celtic piece by von Ziegler and

the classical work by Debussy.  Choose one or the other,

or both, as background for your prayer as we wait for

the paschal Moon to shine on our Easter joy...) 

 

Moonsong by Adrian von Ziegler

Clair de Lune by Debussy,

    performed by Rousseau

 

 

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