Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – January 19, 2025
Second Sunday after Epiphany This week’s music: “Songs of Thankfulness and Praise” (VU #101) “Song of thankfulness and praise, Jesus Christ, to you we raise, Manifested by the star to the sages from afar; Branch of royal David’s stem in your birth at Bethlehem; Anthems be to you addressed, God in flesh made manifest. Manifest at […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 12, 2025
Baptism of Jesus This week’s music: “In the Darkness Shines the Splendour” (VU #92) “In the darkness shines the splendour of the Word who took our flesh, Welcoming, in love’s surrender, death’s dark shadow at his creche. Bearing every human story, Word made flesh reveals his glory. Light of nations, veiled in history, born of […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 5, 2025
Second Sunday after Christmas Epiphany Sunday This week’s music: “As With Gladness Men of Old” (VU #81) “As with gladness men of old did the guiding star behold, As with joy they hailed its light, leading onward, beaming bright, So, most gracious Lord, may we evermore your splendour see. As with joyful steps they sped, to […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 29, 2024
First Sunday after Christmas This week’s music: “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice” (VU #35) “Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! Give ye heed to what we say: News! News! Jesus Christ is born today. Ox and ass before him bow, and he is in the manger now. Christ is born today! Christ is […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 24, 2024 – Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve Christmas Eve Service music: “O Come, All Ye Faithful” (VU #60 v 1, 3, 5) The original four verses of “O Come All Ye Faithful” were discovered in an eighteenth century Jacobean manuscript with John Francis Wade’s signature. At one time historians believed that Wade had simply discovered an ancient hymn by an unknown author, possibly […]
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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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