Cynthia’s creative work spills beyond prose and teaching into liturgical and musical collaboration. Drawing on her training in medieval studies and sacred drama, she crafted a five-part libretto in 2004 for “The Passion,” an original Holy Week oratorio by her friend and colleague Ray Adams, resident conductor of the Aspen Choral Society. In this work, Cynthia re-voices the Passion story as a free, conscious self-offering of universal love rather than a drama of scapegoating or appeasement, opening a contemplative lens on Jesus’s Paschal mystery that remains strikingly fresh today. What follows gathers that libretto and its Holy Week reflections; over time, any additional stand‑alone writings by Cynthia from this period that are neither blog posts nor books will also find their home here.
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S02-SS04-F01: Liturgical Drama
S02-SS04-F01-I01: The Voyage of St. Brendan, bulletin and press from performance at Anglican Parish of Salt Spring Island, by Cynthia Bourgeault, (1996 June 5-16)
S02-SS04-F01-I02: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, Bulletin, by Ray Vincent Adams (Liberetto Cynthia Bourgeault), originally composed 2003, [ca. 20-?]
S02-SS04-F01-I03: The Voyage of Saint Brendan to the “Land Promised to the Saints”: A Modern Liturgical Drama, article on Widsom Waypoints regarding 2017 performance in Stonington (2017 November)
S02-SS04-F02: Liturgies and Sermons
S02-SS04-F02-I01: Advent Candle Lighting Ceremony, taken from the Old English Advent, Division VIII, adapted by the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault Ph.D [Unknown Date]
S02-SS04-F02-I02: The Anointing at Bethany, from the Communautéé de l'Agneau, France, 1994, translated and adapted by the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault Ph.D [Unknown Date]
S02-SS04-F02-I03: Holy Week Liturgy: Saturday morning, compiled by the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault Ph.D [Unknown Date]
S02-SS04-F02-I04: Holy Week Liturgy: Anointing at Bethany Ceremony (Wednesday Night), compiled by the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault Ph.D [Unknown Date]
S02-SS04-F02-I05: Sermon given by Cynthia Bourgeault at St. Philip's Anglican Church, (2001 May 13)
S02-SS04-F02-I06: "Talk Given by Cynthia Bourgeault at Aspen Chapel", posted by The Contemplative Society, (2004 March 7)
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