St. Cecilia: An Ode to Music

Ora pro nobis, Sancta Caecilia

We shall make music
And with our song
We shall paint
What we cannot see
We shall sing
The truth no man can speak
To know the Unknowable Love
To speak the Unspeakable Name

We shall make music
And like St Cecilia
Who chose to die
With song on her lips
And heard voices yet unheard
We call heaven and its light
To retune our strings
To bring beauty to our dissonance

We shall speak the Unspeakable Name

We shall resonate together
Feeling spirit vibrate in our bones
Feeling ourselves resonate
With higher planes
Reaching beyond what's heard
Hearing it sung back to us

We shall speak the Unspeakable Name

Deep calls to Deep
Come!
Come to us!