ti benedica e ti custodisca

Legend of St Francis

Giotto di Bondone (1266 - 1337)

Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi.

Blessing of St Francis of Assisi

Il Signore ti benedica e ti custodisca,

mostri a te il suo volto

e abbia misericordia di te.

Rivolga verso di te il suo sguardo e ti dia pace.

Il Signore benedica te.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.

May the Lord show His face to you

and have compassion on you.

May He turn his face to you and give you peace.

May the Lord bless you.

still me, O Lord

Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)

J.M.W. Turner

Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm.

Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm.

Let all the tumult within me cease.

Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace.

from the The Felgild Compline

© 2016 Northumbria Community

sub tuum praesidium

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Enguerrand Quarton

Musée du Louvre

We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God;
despise not our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen

Traditional

keep me

Apple Harvesting

Eric Ravilious

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Keep me as the apple of your eye.

Order for Compline, Common Prayer

© Archbishops' Council2016

to seek you

The Harbor at Aden

John Taylor Arms (1887 - 1953)

Teach me to seek you

and show yourself to me as I seek;

for I am not able to seek you

unless you teach me;

nor am I able to find you

unless you show me the way.

Let me seek you in desiring you,

and desire you in seeking you.

May I find you in loving you,

and love you in finding you.

St. Anselm

thou wast within

Conversion of St.Augustine

Fra Angelico

Belatedly I loved thee,

O Beauty so ancient and so new

belatedly I loved thee.

For see, thou wast within

and I was without,

and I sought thee out there.

Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly

among the lovely things thou hast made.

Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee.

These things kept me far from thee;

even though they were not at all

unless they were in thee.

The Confessions of St. Augustine