Since 1995, I have used the same prayer book. (In all those years I have owned three copies, but it seems that when I go to use it, I end up holding the dirty, coffee stained, taped together, ratty one from seminary.) And in the back of that book is a hymn for the end of night prayer: "You have beheld the King in his beauty, Mary, daughter of Israel. Y…
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