Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – December 22, 2024
Fourth Week of Advent Love This week’s music: “O Come, All Ye Faithful” (VU #60) “O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold Him, born the King of angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 18, 2024 – Blue Christmas
Blue Christmas Service Music: “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” Our opening music is the familiar advent hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” arranged by Eugenie R. Rocherolle and recorded in 2020 with Laura Steidl at the piano. “Where is He, Immanuel” “Where is He, the One who comes to save? Where is He, O Israel? […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 15, 2024
Third Sunday of Advent Joy This week’s music: “Holy Child Within the Manger” “Holy Child within the manger, long ago, yet ever near, Come as friend to ev’ry stranger, come as hope for ev’ry fear. As you lived to heal the broken, greet the outcast, free the bound. As you taught us love unspoken, teach […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 8, 2024 – Advent 2
Second Sunday of Advent Peace This week’s music: “We Raise a Song of Advent Praise: “We raise a song of Advent praise, expectant hope proclaim, For God who has in Christ once come, comes to us yet again. The wilderness shall burst in flower, the streams shall overflow, When God shall bless the earth with […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 1, 2024
First Sunday of Advent Hope This week’s music: “Once in Royal David’s City” (VU #62) “Once in royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child. He came down to earth from heaven who, with […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 24, 2024
Reign of Christ Sunday This week’s music: “Christ is the Truth, the Way” “Christ is the truth, the way, the endless light of life. Christ shares the struggles of our day, our earthly joy and strife. Redeeming what is lost, and healing human pain, Christ walks the valley of the cross, that all may rise […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 17, 2024
This week’s music: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” (VU #333) “Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. Come, almighty to […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 10, 2024
Remembrance Sunday/Communion This week’s music: “When Quiet Peace is Shattered” (VU #615) “When quiet peace is shattered by dreadful noise of war, And we are bruised and battered by fighting’s constant roar; Lord, break the silence of your word and let your healing voice be heard. O let your healing voice be heard. When troubles still […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 3, 2024
All Our Saints Sunday This week’s music: “For the Faithful Who Have Answered” (VU #707) “For the faithful who have answered when they heard your call to serve, For the many ways you led them testing will and stretching nerve, For their work and for their witness as they strove against the odds, For their courage […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 27, 2024
This week’s music: “I am the Light of the World” (VU #87) I am the light of the world! You people come and follow me!” If you follow and love you’ll learn the mystery of what you were meant to do and be. When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 20, 2024
World Food Sunday This week’s music: “This is the Day” (VU #412) “This is the day, this is the day that our God has made, that our God has made; we will rejoice, we will rejoice, and be glad in it, and be glad in it. This is the day that our God has made, we […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 13, 2024
Thanksgiving Sunday Sixth Sunday in the Season of Creation This week’s music: “We Praise You, O God” (VU #218) The title for our hymn book, Voices United, comes from the third stanza of this hymn. The words were written by Julia Cory in 1902 at the request of the organist, for a Thanksgiving service at Brick Presbyterian Church […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 6, 2024
Creation 5 World Wide Communion Sunday “God, Who Gives to Life Its Goodness” (VU #260) “God who gives to life its goodness, God creator of all joy, God who gives to us our freedom, God who blesses tool and toy; Teach us now to laugh and praise you, Deep within your praises sing, Till the whole […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 29, 2024
Fourth Sunday in the Season of Creation/ Sunday before the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation This week’s music: “Many and Great, O God, Are Your Works” (VU #308) “Many and great, O God, are your works, Maker of earth and sky. Your hands have set the heavens with stars, Your fingers spread the mountains and […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 22, 2024
Third Sunday in the Season of Creation/Communion This week’s music: “Called by Earth and Sky” (MV #135) “Called by earth and sky, promise of hope held high, This is our sacred living trust, Treasure of life sanctified, Called by earth and sky. Precious these waters, endless seas, Deep ocean’s dream, Waters of healing, rivers of rain, […]
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