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What are the fruits of silence?

The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service.

crossingchoir.org - Rising – Vasks, The Fruit of Silence - The Crossing Choir

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Sunrise, Friday March 27

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We love it when music tells us exactly what to do. It makes conducting so obvious. It feels as if each phrase were designed for just our lungs. It feels like this dance was learned before we could walk.

Pēteris Vasks' The Fruit of Silence is one of those pieces. It takes a very simple text, an anaphora of five lines (from that controversial figure Mother Teresa), and imagines in real time the sound world in which those lines might be born, even to the point the words may not be necessary; indeed the composer describes this work as "a very silent meditation." The music seems to nod to Arvo Pärt with its arpeggios in the piano and its horizontal lines in contrast, but the result is all harmony; sure, these are musical gestures we all recognize and that demand our memory activate, but isn't that the point? At least here?

This is another one of those in-concert recordings that we just love because it's just so 'live.' It's not perfect. It's more truthful than that. John's playing in the long introduction is truly beautiful, but four bars into the choir's singing it's completely different; he's so generous, laying into the sound where it fills in the gaps, pulling back when not; his gifts of support become magic here. That first choral entrance? It was the first sound of our entire Month of Moderns 2018; and, it's a wreck of intonation. Yet, after the first phrase, we take our second breath and start the next and everything about our listening is different; the sound becomes more and more synthesized, focused, personal, raw, and aware - and it builds from there. We would never hear this in a studio recording - the process by which the community "listens itself" into a whole that is stronger than the sum of its individuals. For us, this piece is a long, slow dance, that reaches upward and outward. It's one you dance yourself, like so many of us are doing all day, every day right now. It's intimate and public, and, by the time John plays those last two chords, we are changed - prostrate, imagining tomorrow.

Stand up. Dance. The sun's up and its service is peace.

- The Whole Team @ The Crossing

We'll be back Monday.

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What is the fruit of friendship with God?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

cathedralprimaryschool.com - Fruits of Friendship with God

Our school values are known by Christians as the ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ and are particularly remembered when people think of ‘God in Action’. Christians believe it is God in action in their lives which helps them to produce these fruits. You cannot tell what is going on inside a tree. It may look as if nothing is happening inside the leaves and trunk but really there is a lot of action going on. The result of all that action is fruit. Fruit is the result you can see of the inner life of the tree. The inner life of a person can result in good fruit or actions like love, kindness and loyalty. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

These Christian values are regularly discussed and explored with the children and we recently created a ‘Fruits of the Spirit’ tree as part of Collective Worship. These values underpin our work in school, as learners and as educators. We have prayers for each value that we also use in collective worship. You can see these by clicking on the boxes below.

Click on each value to explore further.

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