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First Advent - Pleased to Dwell

10/17/2021

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As we approach All Hallow's, I am preparing to send out my new musical offering Liturgy, an album of songs that follow the liturgical year... but puts the spotlight on some of the figures who were nearly erased.

Mary Magdalene is given the voice at Easter.

Thecla tells her story at Pentecost.

And because I begin the album with Advent, this song, First Advent, is situated at the end, to mark All Hallows. So I made sure the Mother of God, was given her due place.
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The chorus was pulled from the great Christological hymns "and God was pleased to dwell in him in all his fullness" - I have found it is a very fruitful practice to sing "pleased to dwell" in repetition.

Many thanks to Perdita Finn and Clark Strand, for their remarkable work with the rosary.

If you sing along with that line, "pleased to dwell", I'd love to hear what comes up for you.

Liturgy released for all Patreon members on Nov 1st, and then will release widely on Nov 28th. 
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11 Comments
Wilma
10/17/2021 04:08:50 pm

Beautiful!

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Evelyn Montez
10/17/2021 04:39:15 pm

Very beautiful!!!thank you.

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Judith Keller
10/17/2021 04:38:40 pm

Oh, really powerful, archetypal and beautiful. To me, this is filled with Teilhardian wisdom about matter and omega, divine energies of love drawing us, filling us.

I have never literally given birth to a child and yet in my life I see that I am a conceiver and birthed and in living with chronic pain always birthing a more compassionate self so as to live compassionately in ever widening circles . To superimpose all of this over an image of The Great Mother resonating with all the deep cycles of living, dying and rising AND to claim a deep enfleshment of this for our own lives resonates with truth for me.

Thank you Alana…I am pleased to dwell with you and others in the advent of our own lives.

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Nora
10/17/2021 08:47:25 pm

You said it so well in music. I felt enfolded, leaning back into God’s Love. I appreciated Judith’s comments as well

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Alana
10/18/2021 08:32:34 am

Hi Judith! Yes! Teilhard certainly influenced especially the line "to have our being at this density". Actually, when I wrote the full line, "this is the beautiful, dangerous way, to have our being at this density" - I was meditating on Teilhard's work, as well as Rilke's Go to the Limits of Your Longing.

Beautiful sharing. Thank-you so much.

Alana

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Gerry
10/17/2021 04:39:13 pm

Inspirational visuals, lyrics, and music, as well as timely in its message for all of us now!

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Maurice
10/18/2021 02:41:32 am

Thank you Alana. You capture and crystalise so many of my thoughts and doubts right now. So much of your voice is lade with meaning, and uplifting, whilst real. Bless you

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Alana
10/18/2021 08:33:30 am

Thank-you Maurice.

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Bernadette McNab
10/18/2021 02:35:17 pm

Deeply touched. Thank you and God Bless!

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Carrie
10/19/2021 05:42:42 am

Odd how this song both comforted and emboldened me. Filled me with the sense that all is well no matter the outcome of a choice or action or circumstance. I'm really looking forward to the LITURGY general release.

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Dominica Horia
10/19/2021 11:03:25 am

A hymn to the Christ, alive and loving and flowing, "pressed into each particular form". A resonance that reaches me, draws me and nourishes me. Yes, the way to give birth to the fullness of life is "the dangerous way" of self-emptying. Yes, in the life bearing of that paradox, I am "pleased to dwell" with everything that is although, I cannot (yet) truthfully sing along with it. Alana, may my Thank You enter that resonance, reach you and embrace you. Dominica

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