In nomine Christi, Amen

   Our hopes and prayers go out to those who’ve lost their homes and had their land razed by the fires. We’ve known several people who’ve lost all they had in brush fires in the past. And while they bemoan the loss of ‘things’, they are happy to have lived.

   Looking into the eyes of someone who’s lost every single thing they own, and have them tell you they are just happy to be alive…. it brings to-home that we come into this life feeble, toothless and helpless…. and we’ll leave it that way also. What you have doesn’t count so much as what you’ve experienced… the life you’ve led, and the hope that next year you can go on living.  It’s sad to lose your ‘stuff’, but a real tragedy is to lose hope in the future, to lose hope in humanity, and to lose hope in yourself.

‘One Way Donkey Ride’
 ~Mary Black~

There you may stand in your splendor and jewels
Swaying me in both directions
One is the right one, the other for fools
How do I make my selection?
The city lies silent in the warm morning light
The sand is as golden as saffron
Oasis of love, sweet water of life
God bless the poor ones who have none though they have tried

Someone is drowning down there in the flood
But this river will dry by tomorrow
Is it ocean or stream, this love in my blood?
Bringer of joy or of sorrow?
The end of the journey must soon be in sight
Birth is the start of the swansong
Oasis of love, sweet water of life
God bless the poor ones who want some, but are denied

No one is given the map to their dreams
All we can do is to trace it
See where we go to, know where we’ve been
Build up the courage to face it
While we fumble in the darkness where once there was light
Roaming the land of the ancients
Oasis of love, sweet water of life
God bless the poor ones whose patience never died

While we stumble in blindness where once there was sight
Searching for trees in the forest
Oasis of love, sweet water of life
God bless the poor ones who have none though they have tried

God bless the poor ones who want some, but are denied
God bless the poor ones whose patience never died
God bless the poor ones on that one-way donkey ride

‘Sadeness’
~Enigma~

Lyrics to Sadeness :
(Curly M.C./F.Gregorian/David Fairstein)
(Latin) Procedamus in pace
In nomine Christi, Amen(Let us go forth in peace
In the name of Christ, So be it)(Latin)Cum angelis et pueris,
fideles inveniamur

(We shall find the faithful in the
company of angels and children)

(Latin)Attollite portas, principes, vestras
et elevamini, portae aeternales
et introibit rex gloriae
Qius est iste Rex glorie?

(Lift up ye heads o ye glorious gates,
and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors,
and the king of glory shall come in.
Who is the king of glory? )

(French) Sade dit moi
Sade donne moi

(Sade tell me
Sade give me)

(Latin)Procedamus in pace
In nomine Christi, Amen

(Shall we proceed in peace
In the name of Christ, Amen)

(French) Sade dit moi
qu’est ce que tu vas chercher ?
le bien par le mal
la vertu par le vice
Sade dit moi pourquoi l’ ‘evangile du mal ?
quelle est ta religion ou` sont tes fide`les ?
Si tu es contre Dieu, tu es contre l’homme

(Sade tell me
what is it that you seek?
The rightness of wrong
The virtue of vice
Sade tell me why the Gospel of evil ?
What is your religion? Where are your faithful?
If you are against God, you are against man)

(French) Sade dit moi pourquoi le sang pour le plaisir ?
Le plaisir sans l’amour.
N’y a t’il plus de sentiment dans le culte de l’homme ?

(Sade tell me why blood for pleasure?
Pleasure without love?
Is there no longer any feeling in man’s Faith?)

(French) Sade es-tu diabolique ou divin?

(Sade are you diabolical or divine?)

(French) Sade dit moi
Hosanna
Sade donne moi
Hosanna
Sade dit moi
Hosanna
Sade donne moi
Hosanna

(Sade tell me
Hosanna
Sade give me
Hosanna
Sade tell me
Hosanna
Sade give me
Hosanna)

(Latin) In nomine Christi, Amen

(In the name of Christ, Amen)
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