ReflectionSint-Urbanuskerk Bovenkerk · Titus Brandsmakerk
100 words by Cor de Horde
Automatic translation, independently checked · 100 woorden van Cor de Horde
DO YOU BELIEVE? a heavy rhythmic voice sounds beside me. Not once, but three times, insistently and each time at a different pitch. Oh Yes | believe, is my answer. In the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Oh yes | believe. The man next to me looks me straight in the eye. Mighty Father. Yes | believe. Creator of Heaven. Yes | believe. That is how we sing the African Credo together, supported by drums and bongos. Together with thirty young men from all corners of the world. And we understand one another, even though after this church service in the prison at Schiphol I go home again and they must stay. We sing the same language about the Holy Spirit.
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Original text · Dutch
100 woorden van Cor de Horde
DO YOU BELIEVE? klinkt een zware ritmische stem naast me. Niet eenmaal, maar driemaal, dwingend en steeds in een andere toonhoogte. Oh Yes | believe, is mijn antwoord. In the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Oh yes | believe. De man naast me kijkt me strak aan. Mighty Father. Yes | believe. Creator of Heaven. Yes | believe. Zo zingen we samen het African Credo, ondersteund door drums en bongo's. Samen met dertig jongemannen uit alle windstreken. En we begrijpen elkaar, ook al ga ik na deze kerkviering in de gevangenis op Schiphol weer naar huis en moeten zij blijven. We zingen dezelfde taal over de Holy Spirit.
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