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

Opening Prayer written by Melinda Thomas

Opening Song: May I Be Empty by Batya Levine (a queer Jewish artist) © 2020, from the album Karov

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

Psalm 84: Interpretation by Christine Robinson, musical setting and sung by Simon de Voil

Reading of the Night: Cynthia Bailey Manns, Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color. Morehouse Publishing (2013) page 64.

Closing Song: Nairobi Women’s Peace Song by Karen MacKay and Nancy Nordlie, recorded by Lorraine Bayes from the album Cultivating Sees of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy

Closing Blessing written by Melinda Thomas

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.