Yom Kippur; Fast & Pray

I know many people of many different faiths are taking today to fast and to offer prayers of atonement, reparation, contrition – for the sake of the whole world.

I will be joining in, and will (by God’s grace) pray all seven offices of the day (Vigils, Lauds, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers & Compline) with great mindfulness.

And to get us all started, the Avinu Malkeinu (translation at link).

I’ll give you two, because they’re both good; first the traditional, cantored by the astonishing Zalman Baumgarten:

And a bit more modern flavor:

Funnily enough, when I Came across this scrawled note from my retreat, I hadn’t been thinking of Yom Kippur.