All songs and texts used with permission. All rights reserved.

Opening Prayer written by Claudia Love Mair

Opening Song: Dreams by Soyinka Rahim from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy

Sung Psalm Opening and Doxology: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Monk in the World: Songs for Contemplative Living

Psalm 113: Interpretation by Christine Robinson. Musical setting and sung by Simon de Voil

Reading of the Night: Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Convergent Books (2018) page 180-181.

Closing Song: Your Heart Knows the Way Home by Te Martin from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy

Closing Blessing written by Claudia Love Mair

Prayers, readings, and blessings voiced by Claudia Love Mair and Jo-ed Tome. Audio engineering by Simon de Voil.

Please note: All of the songs and prayer responses are published on albums in the Abbey of the Arts collection unless otherwise noted. In addition, these songs & responses have accompanying gesture prayers and/or dances created by Betsey Beckman that can be found on the corresponding video collections. Audio and video recordings of the Prayer Cycles are available at AbbeyoftheArts.com.