True Love at Every Moment Praises God

Poet/Lyricist: 

Mechtild de Magdeburg (c.1210-c.1285)

Composed in 2009 while Szymko was a Fellow at the Instituto Sacatar Artist Residency in Itaparica Bahia, Brazil.

Level: 

Moderate
Item Voicing/Instrumentation Duration Price Audio View Score Quantity
15/2849R SATB, a cappella 4:30 $1.95 Roger Dean
Publisher Link

Publisher: 

Roger Dean Publishing Co.
Text

True Love at Every Moment Praises God

True love in every moment praises God.
Longing love brings a sorrow sweet to the pure.
Seeking love belongs to itself alone.
Understanding love gives itself equally to all.
Enlightened love is mingled with the sadness of the world.
But selfless love bears an effortless fruit,
Working so quietly even the body cannot say how it comes and goes.

from "Meditations from Mechtild of Magdeburg" edited by Henry L. Carrigan Jr. Paraclete Press ©1999,used by permission

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