Morning prayer the morning after seeing Werner Herzog's "Cave of forgotten dreams"



Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, End chamber, West wall, c. 30,000 BCE.



When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers,

the moon and the stars which thou has established;

what is man that thou art mindful of him,

and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

Yet thou hast made him little less than God,

and dost crown him with glory and honor.

Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, Hillaire

chamber, North wall, c. 30,000 BCE.

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;

thou hast put all things under his feet,

all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

Ps 8:3-9, RSV.

(Actually, I slipped up and read the wrong office, but how providential!)