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Gather Us In · Marty Haugen
Here in this place new light is streaming
Now is the darkness vanished away
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken
Gather us in, the blind and the lame
Call to us now and we shall awaken
We shall arise at the sound of our name
We are the young, our lives are a mystery
We are the old who yearn for your face
We have been sung throughout all of history
Called to be light to the whole human race
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty
Gather us in, the proud and the strong
Give us a heart so meek and so lowly
Give us the courage to enter the song
Here we will take the wine and the water
Here we will take the bread of new birth
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters
Call us anew to be salt for the earth
Give us to drink the wine of compassion
Give us to eat the bread that is you
Nourish us well and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true
Not in the dark of buildings confining
Not in some heaven light years away
But here in this place the new light is shining
Now is the kingdom, now is the day
Gather us in and hold us forever
Gather us in and make us your own
Gather us in, all peoples together
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones

Barbe
Memorial
4 December
formerly 16 December
limited to local calendars in 1969
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A beautiful maiden imprisoned in a high tower by her father Dioscorus for disobedience. While there, she was tutored by philosphers, orators and poets. From them she learned to think, and decided that polytheism was nonsense. With the help of Origen and Valentinian, she converted to Christianity.
Her father denounced her to the local authorities for her faith, and they ordered him to kill her. She escaped, but he caught her, dragged her home by her hair, tortured her, and killed her. He was immediately struck by lightning, or according to some sources, fire from heaven.
Her imprisonment led to her association with towers, then the construction and maintenance of them, then to their military uses. The lightning that avenged her murder led to asking her protection against fire and lightning, and her patronage of firefighters, etc. Her association with things military and with death that falls from the sky led to her patronage of all things related to artillery, and her image graced powder magazines and arsenals for years; the gun-room and powder-room on Mediterranean ships were called “La Sainte Barbe”. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
While there were undoubtedly beautiful converts named Barbara, this saint is legend, and her cultus developed when pious fiction was mistaken for history.
Died
beheaded by her father c.235 at Nicomedia during the persecution of Maximinus of Thrace
some relics in Burano, Italy
some relics in the Cathedral of Saint Vladimir, Kiev, Ukraine
some relics at the Church of Saint Blaise, Vodnjan, Grad Vodnjan, Istarska, Croatia
Patronage
against death by artillery
against explosions
against fire
against impenitence
against lightning
against mine collapse
against storms
against vermin
ammunition magazines
ammunition workers
architects
armourers
arms manufacturers
artillery
artillerymen (traditional and proclaimed for Italian artillerymen on 4 December 1951 by Pope Pius XII, for French artillerymen on 25 January 1952 by Pope Pius XII, and for Belgian artillerymen on 16 May 1961 by Pope XXIII)
bell ringers
blacksmiths
boatmen
bomb technicians
brass workers
brewers
builders
carpenters
construction workers
dying people
explosives workers
fire prevention
firefighters
fireworks
fireworks manufacturers
fortifications
foundry workers
geologists
gravediggers
gunners
hatmakers
hatters
mariners
martyrs
masons
mathematicians
military engineers (traditional; proclaimed for Belgian engineers on 16 May 1961 by Pope John XXIII, for Italian engineers on 4 December 1951 by Pope Pius XII, and for French engineers by Pope Pius XII on 25 January 1952)
milliners
miners
ordnance workers
prisoners
quarrymen
safety from storms
sailors
saltpetre workers
smelters
stone masons
stonecutters
storms
sudden death
tilers
warehouses
watermen
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Syria
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in Belgium
Villers-la-Bonne-Eau
in Brazil
Engenheiro Caldas
Fervedouro
Guaranésia
Santa Bárbara do Leste
Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde
Santa Bárbara do Tugúrio
in Italy
Amaroni
Aragno, Aquila
Barbara
Bondo Petello, Albino
Colleferro
Davoli
Endenna
Francavilla di Sicilia
Montecatini Terme
Paterno
Rieti
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Rubio, Venezuela
Santa Barbara, California
Toa Alto, Puerto Rico
Representation
cannon, its attack being reminiscent of the lightning that struck her father
catapult, its attack being reminiscent of the lightning that struck her father
chalice
host
princess in a tower with either the palm of martyrdom or chalice of happy death
woman holding a feather
woman holding a tower
palm of martyrdom
tower
woman trampling a Saracen
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