Welcome Prayer (2013)

Chorus (SATB) – 2 mins.
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Welcome Prayer: Pastoral prayer by Clarke Dewey Wells (2013)
for Mixed Chorus (SATB)

Welcome to this house of continuity,
sacred memories, aspirations, hope.
A place of anchorage, criterion, perspective;
open to larger resources of mind and spirit,
Acknowledging mystery,
reflecting a glory beyond our own devising.
A place of peace and deep quiet
to invite the centering of our souls.

Welcome Prayer was composed for the wonderfully energetic and enterprising choir of Bloomington’s Unitarian Universalist Church under the inspiring direction of Susan Swaney. It is a setting of a pastoral prayer by Clarke Dewey Wells, an author of four books of poetry and well-known essays whose career included an interim pastoral position at Bloomington’s UU Church.