FALLING INTO MERCY
This work comes from amazement - that the encounter with divine love, our relationship with the sacred, is to be constantly astonished by the endlessness of the depths of love. Love's persistence, again and again, whatever our failures to be people of love, is our reassurance of our precious and limitless value in the eyes of our Creator. And this mercy, this depthless mercy, frees us to be become ourselves most fully, seeking, uncertain, but tenacious pilgrims.
Falling Into Mercy was commissioned by The Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy of the Oregon Bach Festival, in honor of the Academy's 20th Anniversary; and the St. Olaf College and Anton Armstrong, Professor of Music & Conductor of the St. Olaf Choir.
May be performed unaccompanied or with piano.
SCORES
SATB div. unaccompanied or with piano
Printed scores: Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard, J. W. Pepper
Digital scores: J. W. Pepper
THE TEXT
To fall into mercy
is to keep falling,
endlessly, the one fall
that cannot be stopped
since love’s depths
have never been sounded.
No wonder, the wonder
that saints, the everyday
ask for the mercy
of emptiness, to be filled
with mercy such as this,
to be loved this way.
Euan Tait
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