One Given Step | Dominus Requiem | Catholic Doom Metal

"One Given Step" ("Ambulavit cum Deo") by Dominus Requiem. Noah’s walk stays small against the violence around him: one faithful step, then another. The song presents him as sustained by grace, not as a triumphant hero. Listen more:    / @dominusrequiem   From: Arca Diluvii - The Ark of the Flood Artist: Dominus Requiem Language: English and Ecclesiastical Latin Lyrics At first light, blood was drying by the gate. The strong walked past and called their hunger law. No hand reached down. No witness raised his voice. The road received the weight of all our shame. I had no word to make the city whole, no strength to turn the many from their way. I knew only the ground beneath my feet and would not let their violence choose my step. Still I walked while every road ran red. Still I walked: one given step, then one more step. Behind me, feasting swallowed up the cries. Before me, dust and lengthening shadow lay. No thunder spoke. No timber split the field. I walked before I understood the way. Noe vero invenit gratiam coram Domino. Mercy had found me before I knew its name. It did not lift me clean above their dust. It held my feet from joining in the wound and gave me one more step beneath Your gaze. So I walked, not higher than the rest. So I walked, still made of dust, yet held within a grace I did not earn. Noe vir iustus atque perfectus fuit in generatione sua; cum Deo ambulavit. Noe vero invenit gratiam coram Domino. Cum Deo ambulavit. Cum Deo... ambulavit. #CatholicMetal #DoomMetal #DominusRequiem Dominus Requiem creates Catholic metal for the soul at war: sacred metal, Gothic Catholic prayer, Scripture, old-master visuals, and daily Gospel reflections.