SUNDAY BEST #386 - LIGHT A CANDLE

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4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity.
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Proverbs 4: "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

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Last week, Selep Imaging from the USA posted some great shots from the Yellowstone National Park. Please visit her blog for more beautiful photos.

LADY CHAPEL, ST FRANCIS CHURCH

The Lady Chapel within St Francis' Church is a most beautiful and sacred place. In 2000 Mulholland Restorations were commissioned by the community of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers to restore the chapel paint work.  Starting from its original highly decorated scheme, the chapel had undergone a number of changes and abbreviations since it opened in 1858. Over varnishing and water entry had also had a negative effect and the interior was quite smoke stained. 

A decision was made to restore the chapel to its full original painted design. Works proceeded to remove all extraneous matter and coatings to regain the ‘lost design’. The walls were consolidated and the repainting works advanced. Paint scrapes revealed what was added and what was missing and allowed the company to undertake the redecoration of the most beautiful chapel in Melbourne.

This post is part of Robert's and Louis' Psalm Sunday meme,

and also part of Charlotte's Spiritual Sunday meme.

And here is the concluding chorus of Mendelssohn's setting of Psalm 42, op 42.

PSALM SUNDAY

For Psalm Sunday this week, I give you Gabriel Fauré’s “Cantique de Jean Racine”, so titled as the text for this piece was written by the French tragedian Jean Racine (1639-1699). Here it is performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford and conducted by Edward Higginbottom.

This post is part of the Psalm Sunday meme hosted by Robert and Louis,
And also for the Spiritual Sunday meme.

Cantique
Verbe, égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance,
Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;
De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence,
Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux!


Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,
Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;
Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante,
Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!


O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèle
Pour te bénir maintenant rassemblé.
Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,
Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé!


Canticle
Word, equal to the Almighty, our only hope,
Eternal light of the earth and the Heavens;
We break the peaceful night's silence,
Divine Saviour, cast thine eyes upon us!


Spread the fire of thy mighty grace upon us.
May the entire hell flee at the sound of your voice;
Disperse from any slothful soul the drowsiness
Inducing it to forget your laws!


O Christ, look with favour upon this faithful people
Which has now gathered to bless you.
Receive its singing, offered to your immortal glory,
And may it leave with the gifts you have bestowed upon it.