Notes for Sunday, May 27
Sunday we celebrate the Festival of Pentecost!
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Ezekiel 37:1-14
SERMON: What Shall We Do With The Bones?
ANTHEM: Come Down, O Love Divine, D. Busarow
The words to this traditional Christian hymn were written by Bianco da Siena (d. 1434), and appear in Laudi spirituali del Bianco da Siena, edited by T. Bini, 1851. The words were translated from Italian to English by Richard Littledale for the 1867 version of The People’s Hymnal. Vaughan Williams composed the harmonization of the first verse that appears in the version we will sing.
Bianco da Siena was a follower of B. Giovanni Colombini. The two lived in Italy during the “golden age of vernacular ascetical and mystical literature.” Colombini’s early private life was apparently marred by avarice, ambition, and a proneness to anger. His reading of the biography of St. Mary of Egypt is supposed to have transformed him completely, into a man of incredible humility and meekness. He converted his home into a refuge for the needy and suffering, and lived out his life in apostolic poverty.
Bianco is known for his mystical lyrics. The etymology of the word mysticism implies a relation to mystery. In philosophy, mysticism refers to a desire of the human soul towards an intimate union with the Divinity.
The mystery of God will be on full display Sunday, as we celebrate God’s gift of Holy Spirit. As we sing, let us feel and feed our souls’ desire towards union with the Divinity. For as we will hear with the Invitation to Worship, “God’s Spirit has been poured out on all flesh.”
HYMNS AND RESPONSES:
#128 On Pentecost They Gathered
Austrian Hymn (response)
Stuttgart (children’s recessional)
#127 Come, O Spirit
Sanctus #581
#129 Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Andante Cantabile, from Symphony No. IV, C. Widor
Offertory: Elevation, from Messe Basse, L. Vierne
Postlude: Carillon, L. Vierne
Vierne was an assistant to Widor, at Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Vierne suffered from congenital cataracts, and used Braille for most his work later in life. His oft-stated lifelong dream was to die at the console of the great organ of Notre Dame. Which he did, June 2 1937, during the closing section of a recital, with his left foot resting on the low “E” pedal.
Until Sunday, Bonnie
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Ezekiel 37:1-14
SERMON: What Shall We Do With The Bones?
ANTHEM: Come Down, O Love Divine, D. Busarow
The words to this traditional Christian hymn were written by Bianco da Siena (d. 1434), and appear in Laudi spirituali del Bianco da Siena, edited by T. Bini, 1851. The words were translated from Italian to English by Richard Littledale for the 1867 version of The People’s Hymnal. Vaughan Williams composed the harmonization of the first verse that appears in the version we will sing.
Bianco da Siena was a follower of B. Giovanni Colombini. The two lived in Italy during the “golden age of vernacular ascetical and mystical literature.” Colombini’s early private life was apparently marred by avarice, ambition, and a proneness to anger. His reading of the biography of St. Mary of Egypt is supposed to have transformed him completely, into a man of incredible humility and meekness. He converted his home into a refuge for the needy and suffering, and lived out his life in apostolic poverty.
Bianco is known for his mystical lyrics. The etymology of the word mysticism implies a relation to mystery. In philosophy, mysticism refers to a desire of the human soul towards an intimate union with the Divinity.
The mystery of God will be on full display Sunday, as we celebrate God’s gift of Holy Spirit. As we sing, let us feel and feed our souls’ desire towards union with the Divinity. For as we will hear with the Invitation to Worship, “God’s Spirit has been poured out on all flesh.”
HYMNS AND RESPONSES:
#128 On Pentecost They Gathered
Austrian Hymn (response)
Stuttgart (children’s recessional)
#127 Come, O Spirit
Sanctus #581
#129 Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us
OTHER ITEMS:
Prelude: Andante Cantabile, from Symphony No. IV, C. Widor
Offertory: Elevation, from Messe Basse, L. Vierne
Postlude: Carillon, L. Vierne
Vierne was an assistant to Widor, at Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Vierne suffered from congenital cataracts, and used Braille for most his work later in life. His oft-stated lifelong dream was to die at the console of the great organ of Notre Dame. Which he did, June 2 1937, during the closing section of a recital, with his left foot resting on the low “E” pedal.
Until Sunday, Bonnie
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