This sung response to the Prayer of the Faithful was written for our diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2012. The pastoral theme in Lourdes for that year was “with Bernadette praying the Rosary” and our archdiocese had chosen to focus, in particular, on the Mysteries of Light.

Each day the times of prayer and liturgy focused on one of the particular luminous mysteries and we used the corresponding text for the sung response.
Since then we’ve found various opportunities to use this piece as the corresponding scripture texts come up in the cycle of readings, or even adapting new text as we did recently at the Celebrate Conference during Easter week. Continue Reading…