We Pray to Be at Peace from Missa Gaia

We Pray to Be at Peace is movement II of the work "Missa Gaia" by composer Libby Larsen. Marked "II. Kyrie: Mother, Sister, Blessed, Honored" in the score, this gentle and lyrical two-minute piece is a prayer for humility and awareness. The form and spirit of the "Missa Gaia" is the traditional Mass combining words that speak of human beings' relationship to the Earth. The texts are drawn from the Bible, from Native American poets Joy Harjo and Maurice Kenny, from medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, from the Chinook Psalter, and from poets M. K. Dean, Wendell Berry, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.