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It was mentioned as a prayer book written by Pdraig Tuama for the Corrymeela community. The book's essay "Oremus" explores the rhythm and adaptability of prayer, comparing it to poetry and breath.
Prayer, like poetry, like breath, like our own names, has a fundamental rhythm in our bodies. It changes, it adapts, it varies from the canon.
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It was mentioned as a prayer book written by Pdraig Tuama for the Corrymeela community. The book's essay "Oremus" explores the rhythm and adaptability of prayer, comparing it to poetry and breath.
Prayer, like poetry, like breath, like our own names, has a fundamental rhythm in our bodies. It changes, it adapts, it varies from the canon.
So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears.
Let us name the harsh light and soft darkness that surround us. Let's claw ourselves out from the graves we've dug. Let's lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up and out and around.
The world is big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked, and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable and full of meaning. Oremus, let us pray.
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It was described as a prayer book that helps make sense in times of senselessness; it doesn't offer solutions but speaks to the mystery of humanity.
Prayer can be a rhythm that helps us make sense in times of senselessness, not offering solutions but speaking to and to be heard. Not offering solutions, but speaking to and from the mystery of humanity.