Opus 1209

Love Flows from God (2017)

for SATB Chorus Unaccompanied

Text by Mechthild of Magdeburg

Harvard University Choir; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor

Duration: 1.75 min.

Dedication: for the unveiling of “The Divine Journey, Companions of Love and Hope”

Commission: Commissioned by The Memorial Church, Harvard University

Publisher: Selah Publishing Co., Inc. (forthcoming)

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Love Flows from God (2017) on a text by the German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg was written for the unveiling of “The Divine Journey, Companions of Love and Hope,” a painting by Janet McKenzie commissioned for the re-opening of the Memorial Church at Harvard University (April 2017).

Love flows from God into us effortlessly,
As a bird glides through the air without moving its wings.
Thus we move in God’s world, united in body and soul.
As the Source makes a sound, all humanity sings.

Mechthild of Magdeburg (ca. 1207–1282/94), trans. and alt.