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Aramaic “Hail Mary” & Eckhart’s Call to Birth the Christ 02/1/2024 |
Apropos of the call for new versions of the “Hail Mary” prayer, I received a response from Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas Klotz. |
I am proud to say that Neil was on our faculty for years at ICCS in Oakland, where he led body prayer every morning and taught courses on the Aramaic Jesus and the Dances for Universal Peace. His first book, Prayers of the |
The entire “Our Father,” sung in Aramaic, from the album Around The World with the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus, by Neil Douglas-Klotz |
Cosmos, offers a masterful service by re-translating the “Our Father” prayer and the “Beatitudes” based on Aramaic. We always employ that translation in our Cosmic Masses and always people respond deeply to it. Neil wrote me this note accompanying the teaching video* he has done on
the “Hail Mary” prayer from the Aramaic. |
“Shlom Lech Maryam,” the Hail Mary in Aramaic. Sung by Ana Otero. | Hi Matt, This might be of interest…not a word about death in this one either, but much to do with us all being “mothers of God,” in Eckhart’s words. All the best, Neil |
Of course, he is referring to passages like this in Meister Eckhart: What help is it to me that Mary is full of grace, if I am not also full of grace? And what help is it to me that the Father gives birth to his Son unless I too give birth to him? It is for this reason that God gives birth to the divine Son in a perfect soul and lies in the maternity bed so that Divinity can give birth to him again in all his works. And this: Have concern so that a ‘child’ will not only be in the process of being born but that it be already born, just as the Son is constantly born and will constantly be born in God. May God help us so that this will happen to us! Amen. |
Another responder asked for the original Latin version of the prayer which follows: Ave Maria, gratia plena
Dominus tecum, virgo serena;
Benedicta tu in
mulieribus
Qui peperisti pacem hominibus
Et angelis gloriam.
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui
Que coheredes ut essemus
sui
Nos fecit per gratiam. |
The 12th-century Latin of the Aramaic “Ave Maria,” performed by Daily Meditation team member Rosanna Tufts. |
* Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties between the U.S. and Scotland, Neil Douglas-Klotz’s teaching video could not be included in this DM, but will be added in tomorrow’s meditation. We regret the inconvenience!
Adapted from Matthew Fox, “We are Children of God and Mothers of God,” in Fox, Passion For Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister
Eckhart, pp. 336, 330, 325-337.
And Fox, Meditations with Meister Eckhart, pp. 76-84.
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