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Dale Trumbore
Dale Trumbore
Into Your Hands
In this a cappella work appropriate for Easter, we find hope in times of darkness or death by entrusting our spirit to God’s hands.
SATB a cappella
This work explores the idea of Christ’s hands as a symbol of compassion, especially in the face of grief and suffering.
Composer’s Notes
Into Your Hands is dedicated to Maura Lafferty.
-Dale Trumbore
Text
In the shadow of death, we must not look to the past,
but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
And it seems to me the only and greatest prayer we can make,
in those hours when our path darkens before us,
is that of our Master on the Cross:
In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.
Into your hands I entrust my spirit.
To the hands that broke and quickened the bread,
which blessed and caressed, which were pierced—
to the hands that are like our own—
to the sweet and powerful hands that reach
to the marrow of the soul, that form and create—
when we suffer or are afraid, it is good
to surrender our soul to these hands so full of love.
In the shadow of death, we must not look to the past,
but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (translated and adapted by the composer)
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