Friday 17 April 2015

Our Mother


Our Mother of Perpetual Help - 15th.Century Byzantine Icon


Our Mother who art in Earth and Heaven,
(as we are in the Mother and Heaven is in us)
Hallowed, respectful,joyful Thy name.
Thy holy realm is already come,
Thy will awaits us to be done.
Give us this day the strength to love,
To be the lion and the dove.
Forgive us as we tread your flowers,
Ignoring duties that are ours.
Lead us from annihilation
To celebrate all creation,
For we share in the life and in the power
And in the glory forever and ever.

                                   Priscilla Baird Hinckley

I have had this cutting in my scrapbook since the mid 1980's and the only reference I can find to the author is that she wrote a booklet for the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation.

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