{"id":15958,"date":"2012-03-18T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T21:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2012-03-18T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T21:51:29","slug":"a-couple-of-hymn-suggestions-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-couple-of-hymn-suggestions-for-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of hymn suggestions for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairoscanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SUS-EarthDayWorship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">These<\/a> come courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/green\/docs\/Earth%20Hour%20&amp;%20Earth%20Sunday%202012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">links<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/index.cfm?regDone=Yes\" target=\"_blank\">Diocese of Niagara<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Earth is my mother<\/span><br \/>\nThe earth is my mother<br \/>\nThe earth is my mother<br \/>\nShe\u2019s good to me<br \/>\nShe\u2019s good to me<br \/>\nShe gives me everything that I ever need<br \/>\nShe gives me everything that I ever need<\/p>\n<p>Food on the table<br \/>\nFood on the table<br \/>\nThe clothes I wear<br \/>\nThe clothes I wear<br \/>\nThe sun and the water&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The earth is my mother and my best friend, too<br \/>\nThe great provider for me and you<br \/>\nThe earth is my mother and my best friend, too<br \/>\nThe great provider for me and you<\/p>\n<p>Her ways are gentle, her life is strong&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The earth is my mother and my best friend, too<br \/>\nThe great provider for me and you<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O Beautiful Gaia<\/span><br \/>\nO Beautiful Gaia, O Gaia calling us home,<br \/>\nO beautiful Gaia, calling us on.<\/p>\n<p>Fra\u00eeche ros\u00e9e du matin, O Gaia tu nous appelles<br \/>\nFra\u00eeche ros\u00e9e du matin, rentrons chez nous.<\/p>\n<p>Soil yielding its harvest, O Gaia calling us home<br \/>\nSoil yielding its harvest, calling us on.<\/p>\n<p>Waves crashing on granite, O Gaia calling us home<br \/>\nPine bending in windstorm, calling us on.<\/p>\n<p>Loon nesting in marshland, O Gaia calling us home,<br \/>\nLoon nesting in marshland, calling us on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To consummate the celebration, please place a golden calf on the altar and cavort around the church in abandoned pagan revelry, preferably with no clothes on.<\/p>\n<p>A little like this convulsive capering from Christ Anglican Church, London, Ontario. They still had their clothes on in this bit; God is merciful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDuWY7ywLVc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These come courtesy of links from the Diocese of Niagara: The Earth is my mother The earth is my mother The earth is my mother She\u2019s good to me She\u2019s good to me She gives me everything that I ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-couple-of-hymn-suggestions-for-earth-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[2111,2121,969],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-day","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-earth-day","tag-kairos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}