My heart at Your feet: Celtic Blessing from Mull Monastery

'My heart before You' is a prayer of blessing recorded at Mull Monastery, the Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull.

T H E T E X T is inspired from old Celtic prayers from the Hebrides. It was composed at the Monastery and it is included in the 'Shape of Christ: Blessings from the Celtic Isles'. The booklet is available from:

https://shop.mullmonastery.com/product-category/books/

We’ve based T H E M U S I C on the tune known as “the Parting Glass”, a beautiful Scottish song of leave taking, rearranged In 5/4, with occasional bars in 3/4 to give a meditative quality. The tune has a much older history, as its roots come from another song called the 'Peacock', which dates back to at least the 17th century, as a benediction on parting.

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Fr Seraphim Aldea: 'we had this image of a man alone in the boat, praying and working at the same time. He would be entirely focused on prayer for a while, but then his attention would again turn to work. Even then, however, the words of his prayer would continue to resonate in his heart, like a sweet, haunting tune one keeps humming, without even realising it. And I was very keen to use a lullaby, if at all possible, because God's love for us can only be compared to the love of a mother for her child. Besides, this entire Booklet is a collection of blessings, and this is what God and a mother instinctively do: they bless the new life, they pour Love over their children. We wanted this sense of prayer seeping in and taking over, continuing in one's heart long after the actual words of prayer have been uttered - like a humm, like the waves.

A gift from Mull Monastery for this sad, frightened world, which God SO loved that He gave Himself for us'.

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Our gratitude to Caroline for arranging the music; Fr Justin and Gabriel for the drone images; and Mihaela, for the amazing art-work donated to the Monastery. May our work together bring a drop of peace, love and healing into the world.

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