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

Opening Prayer written by Jo-ed Tome

Opening Song: Join in the Joy by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan from the album Singing with Monks and Mystics

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

Psalm 19: Interpretation, musical setting, and sung by Simon de Voil

Reading of the Night: Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart. Beacon Press (2023) page 106.

Closing Song: Joy to Life by Alexa Sunshine Rose from the album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy

Closing Blessing written by Jo-ed Tome

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.