Notes for Sunday, February 11
Sunday is the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
It is the 2nd Sunday that we celebrate Black History Month with music. (I have not yet seen a copy of the bulletin, but I anticipate the following:)
SCRIPTURE:
The Psalm: Psalm 1
The Hebrew Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-10 The Gospel Reading: Luke 6:17-26
Jim Dowd will be preaching and leading us in worship.
ANTHEM:
We will sing "Ain'-A That Good News!"
News is new information. Information not previously known or heard. We have heard and know the "Good News," of course. But let us hear it "anew," as news, as we sing.
William Dawson has composed a piece full of musical effects: accents (a stronger attack than normal), marcato (a "marked" note, or very heavy attack), sforzando (another sort of strong accent), staccato (short and detached). There are even staccato-marcato notes! All perhaps used with the purpose of helping the "Good News" to be heard, and to be heard anew.
Mary will also sing a few lines of "Over My Head." The logic underlying this "proof" of God might not be consistent with the principles of reason. But I'd wager it's still hard for those inspired by music to reject: "Over my head, I hear music in the air. There must be a God somewhere."
HYMNS:
#262, God of the Ages
#289, O God of Every Nation
#563, Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is known as "The Black National Anthem."
It was first sung in public as part of a celebration of Lincoln's birthday, in 1900, by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregatd Stanton School, in Jacksonville, Florida. The words call for earth and heaven to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty." Singing this hymn was a way for African Americans to speak out against racism and Jim Crow laws at the turn of the century. During the civil rights movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970s was often sung immediately after The Star Spangled Banner at events attended by African-Americans.
In honor of Black History month, please also permit me a moment of pride in the discipline I spend most of most of my days thinking about: economics. Economics is often referred to as the "dismal science." Conventional wisdom suggests that Thomas Carlyle dubbed economics the dismal science in reference to Malthus' pessimistic theory of population. However, Carlyle actually used this phrase in an attack on John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, and other classical economists. The classicals believed that people are just people - that all men are equal. They thus advocated for liberty for all, and supported the emancipation of slaves. Carlyle, in contrast, was a staunch supporter of slavery. He thought the notion of freedom for all "dismal." Perhaps now you can understand why many economists are in fact proud to practice the dismal science.
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Lord, I Want to Be a Christian, G. Young
Offertory: O God of Every Nation, E. Diemer
Postlude: God of the Ages, E. Diemer
Until Sunday, Bonnie
It is the 2nd Sunday that we celebrate Black History Month with music. (I have not yet seen a copy of the bulletin, but I anticipate the following:)
SCRIPTURE:
The Psalm: Psalm 1
The Hebrew Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-10 The Gospel Reading: Luke 6:17-26
Jim Dowd will be preaching and leading us in worship.
ANTHEM:
We will sing "Ain'-A That Good News!"
News is new information. Information not previously known or heard. We have heard and know the "Good News," of course. But let us hear it "anew," as news, as we sing.
William Dawson has composed a piece full of musical effects: accents (a stronger attack than normal), marcato (a "marked" note, or very heavy attack), sforzando (another sort of strong accent), staccato (short and detached). There are even staccato-marcato notes! All perhaps used with the purpose of helping the "Good News" to be heard, and to be heard anew.
Mary will also sing a few lines of "Over My Head." The logic underlying this "proof" of God might not be consistent with the principles of reason. But I'd wager it's still hard for those inspired by music to reject: "Over my head, I hear music in the air. There must be a God somewhere."
HYMNS:
#262, God of the Ages
#289, O God of Every Nation
#563, Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing is known as "The Black National Anthem."
It was first sung in public as part of a celebration of Lincoln's birthday, in 1900, by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregatd Stanton School, in Jacksonville, Florida. The words call for earth and heaven to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty." Singing this hymn was a way for African Americans to speak out against racism and Jim Crow laws at the turn of the century. During the civil rights movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970s was often sung immediately after The Star Spangled Banner at events attended by African-Americans.
In honor of Black History month, please also permit me a moment of pride in the discipline I spend most of most of my days thinking about: economics. Economics is often referred to as the "dismal science." Conventional wisdom suggests that Thomas Carlyle dubbed economics the dismal science in reference to Malthus' pessimistic theory of population. However, Carlyle actually used this phrase in an attack on John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, and other classical economists. The classicals believed that people are just people - that all men are equal. They thus advocated for liberty for all, and supported the emancipation of slaves. Carlyle, in contrast, was a staunch supporter of slavery. He thought the notion of freedom for all "dismal." Perhaps now you can understand why many economists are in fact proud to practice the dismal science.
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Lord, I Want to Be a Christian, G. Young
Offertory: O God of Every Nation, E. Diemer
Postlude: God of the Ages, E. Diemer
Until Sunday, Bonnie
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