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Let My Prayer Rise
06:43
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From This Place
04:49
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A meditation on Mary Magdalene’s emotional landscape on the day she goes to anoint Christ's body, from the moment she wakes in the morning to her epiphany at the empty tomb.
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Early
I wake in the dark
Shell-shocked dreaming awake
I see you on a cross
My feet touch stone-cold earth
As I fall out of sleep
And wander towards your tomb
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Early
sunlight cannot pierce this darkness
It only shines on your tomb
It only shines on where the stone is gone
My feet touch stone-cold earth
As I run from this place
To tell the others you loved
That now no one knows where you are
It wasn’t bad enough we had to watch you die
But now even your body is gone
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Weeping I stare into your tomb
And find two angels there
Who ask me why I weep
And I wonder if they want to hear the story of my life
The deadness that I’d carried before I met this Christ
My aloneness in hiding from the hurts that I’d received
My fearfulness in not knowing now in whom I could believe
But even as my mind is racing now I sense behind
I turn around to find a man is standing by my side
He asks me why I weep and who I’m looking for inside
I ask him if he’s taken the body of my Christ…
He answers me by speaking my name
And I know who he is
And he asks me to go
He asks me to tell you
That he is alive
And I stand on this earth
And I run from this place…
My feet touch stone-cold earth as I run from this place
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Evening Mass: Kyrie
02:37
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Evening Mass: Gloria
03:07
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Evening Mass: Sanctus
02:53
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Evening Mass: Agnus Dei
02:43
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O, the Deep, Deep Love
06:53
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Christ the Light
02:52
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Never Before
03:19
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Lyrics:
The angel said the Lord is with me:
The Lord is with me in a way he’s never been before;
His Spirit is my lover, his son shall fill my womb
With holiness and joy
And with life that I can feel kicking at my insides.
The Lord will stay with me in a way he’s never stayed before;
He will suckle at my breast and let me hold him in my arms.
He will run to me when he cuts his finger
Or wonders aloud at his Father’s creation in a brightly colored butterfly.
Oh, who is this child Lord who comes from up above,
Whose eyes will look beyond my own to a destiny I do not know?
Oh, who is this God boy whose hands shall clasp mine
And whose tears I shall wipe away with trembling fingers of my own?
The Lord will leave me in a way he’s never left before;
As a king whose time has come, as a son his mother loved,
As a boy whose laughter has filled my heart
And as a baby whose tears I have cried as if they were my own.
The angel said the Lord is with me.
Music and lyrics © 1998 Deanna Witkowski/Tilapia Tunes/BMI. All Rights Reserved.
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Make Your Wonders Known
01:39
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Pass Me Not
05:44
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Keep in Mind
03:51
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Song of Simeon
03:36
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Deanna Witkowski Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Force of Nature, Deanna's bold, new recording featuring the adventurous music of Mary Lou Williams, is available at mcgjazz.bandcamp.com/album/force-of-nature
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