Notes for Sunday, January 21
It is the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The scripture readings follow the lectionary for last Sunday:
The Psalm is Psalm 36:5-10.
The Epistle Reading is 1 Corinthisna 12:1-12.
The sermon title is "What Cards Are You Holding?"
CHOIR ANTHEM:
The anthem falls after the reading of Psalm 36, and before the Epistle Reading.
The anthem text is based on Psalm 19:14 (and Colossians 3:16, 17).
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer."
These are words we've all heard many times. They are simple and familiar, yet their plea is so very important. The things we say and the sentiments of our hearts are the foundation of the actions that follow. If the latter are to be good and true, so must the former.
K. Lee Scott sets the words of the Psalm to music that is sustained, legato, flowing. Much of the piece is quiet and simple, with harmonies that are mostly predictable, familiar, and comfortable - like the Psalm. Our sound should be quiet, yet fill the sanctuary, as it soars out of the loft and envelopes the congregation.
HYMNS:
#435, We All Are One in Mission
#369, I'm Goona Live so God Can Use Me
#429 Lord, You Give the Great Commission
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Adagio, From Third Sonata, A. Guilmant
Offertory: Nun Bitten Wir, D. Buxtehude
Postlude: Psalm 19: The Heavens Declare, B. Marcello
The prelude should complement the anthem. It is also slow and sustained. It's one of those pieces with a tune that's somehow familiar, even at a first hearing. (Could there be music we are born knowing?)
The offertory is one of Buxtehude's preludes on chorale melodies. Nun Bitten Wir Den Heiligen Geist (We Pray Now to the Holy Spirit) is one of Martin Luther's many hymns.
Some of Luther's hymns were derived from the ancient hymnody of the German and Latin churches. Others are thought to have originally been secular airs. Many of them though, were written by Luther himself.
The Liberty Fund has put an 1884 edition of Luther's hymns online. You can peruse and download Luther's hymns to your heart's content:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0225#toc_lf225.head.050
(Liberty Fund also has the complete works of Shakespeare available online - free for the reading and downloading!)
As Luther wrote in a preface to Joseph Klug's 1543 Wittenberg hymn-book,
"Where friends and comrades sing in tune, All evil passions vanish soon; Hate, anger, envy cannot stay, All gloom and heartache melt away; The lust of wealth, the cares that cling, Are all forgotten while we sing."
Until Sunday Morning, Bonnie
The scripture readings follow the lectionary for last Sunday:
The Psalm is Psalm 36:5-10.
The Epistle Reading is 1 Corinthisna 12:1-12.
The sermon title is "What Cards Are You Holding?"
CHOIR ANTHEM:
The anthem falls after the reading of Psalm 36, and before the Epistle Reading.
The anthem text is based on Psalm 19:14 (and Colossians 3:16, 17).
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer."
These are words we've all heard many times. They are simple and familiar, yet their plea is so very important. The things we say and the sentiments of our hearts are the foundation of the actions that follow. If the latter are to be good and true, so must the former.
K. Lee Scott sets the words of the Psalm to music that is sustained, legato, flowing. Much of the piece is quiet and simple, with harmonies that are mostly predictable, familiar, and comfortable - like the Psalm. Our sound should be quiet, yet fill the sanctuary, as it soars out of the loft and envelopes the congregation.
HYMNS:
#435, We All Are One in Mission
#369, I'm Goona Live so God Can Use Me
#429 Lord, You Give the Great Commission
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Adagio, From Third Sonata, A. Guilmant
Offertory: Nun Bitten Wir, D. Buxtehude
Postlude: Psalm 19: The Heavens Declare, B. Marcello
The prelude should complement the anthem. It is also slow and sustained. It's one of those pieces with a tune that's somehow familiar, even at a first hearing. (Could there be music we are born knowing?)
The offertory is one of Buxtehude's preludes on chorale melodies. Nun Bitten Wir Den Heiligen Geist (We Pray Now to the Holy Spirit) is one of Martin Luther's many hymns.
Some of Luther's hymns were derived from the ancient hymnody of the German and Latin churches. Others are thought to have originally been secular airs. Many of them though, were written by Luther himself.
The Liberty Fund has put an 1884 edition of Luther's hymns online. You can peruse and download Luther's hymns to your heart's content:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0225#toc_lf225.head.050
(Liberty Fund also has the complete works of Shakespeare available online - free for the reading and downloading!)
As Luther wrote in a preface to Joseph Klug's 1543 Wittenberg hymn-book,
"Where friends and comrades sing in tune, All evil passions vanish soon; Hate, anger, envy cannot stay, All gloom and heartache melt away; The lust of wealth, the cares that cling, Are all forgotten while we sing."
Until Sunday Morning, Bonnie
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