Great Hours is the title of the album of songs dedicated to the memory of the great ascetic of Mount Athos, Saint Joseph the Hesychast, for the spiritual support he has offered to the world over time.
The song that follows this update, titled "A Prayer for All", comes from Mount Athos and is a prayer to our Creator, a poetic discourse on the Divine love of the Saint. It symbolizes the unity and need we all have now, in this painful ordeal for mankind to pray to God.
The poet A. Photinos made the adaptation and rendering of the poem from the original verses that exist in the publication of Vatopaidi Monastery titled, Elder Joseph the Hesychast: Letters and Poems 60 Years Since His Repose.
The interpretation is by Jonathan Jackson from the USA and the composition is by Andreas Katsigiannis from Greece.
The album is produced by the Saint Maximos the Greek Institute.
A Prayer for All
My yearning for Your love has wounded my poor soul
And every other kind of love is now no love at all
The love inside my heart, the air that fills my breath
Glorious light inside my mind, my only love and strength
I trust Your love to guide me right
into Your arms to hold me tight
I cannot bear to be apart
I am ablaze with Your sweet love
My God, come. My God, come.
My God, come. My God, come.
Brighten my mind and heart, gently breathe unto me
The breeze of Your serenity, and make my body free
Shine on my feeble mind, Your sweet celestial light
The dazzling motion of divine knowledge and holy might
I trust Your love to guide me right
into Your arms to hold me tight
I cannot bear to be apart
I am ablaze with Your sweet love
My God, come. My God, come.
