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Ocean’s Song

Ocean’s Song tells of a pilgrim voyaging over inner-seas in communion with An Gèadh Faidhaich – a voyage through the straits between inner and outer worlds. 

The composition is a tale of three ocean voyages told with a Celtic lens:

I First Voyage: Authentic Freedom in Crìost;

II A Long-haul Voyage in the Wisdom of Crìost;

III Last-Voyage: Joy Made Full in Crìost (to be released)

Each a mosaic of poems selected from a pilgrim’s sailboat log.

Ocean’s Song is the shift in undercurrents and counter currents experienced by the pilgrim voyager. The underlying song of the voyage can only be sensed when the composition is experienced as liturgy.

Prayerfully and gradually read each voyage as a whole in a quite place if you can. Experience the depths of Ocean’s Song following the ancient contemplative way of Lectio Divina: Prayerfully read the liturgy, engage between the lines, enter into the silence between each poem, be still in the presence of Crìost.