Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – March 23, 2025
Lent 3 This week’s music: “All Who are Thirsty” (MV #4) “All who are thirsty All who are weak Come to the fountain Dip your heart in the streams of life Let the pain and the sorrow Be washed away In the waves of his mercy As deep cries out to deep, we sing Come Lord […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 16, 2025
Lent 2 This week’s music: “Great is Thy Faithfulness” (VU #288) “Great is thy faithfulness, God our Creator; There is no shadow of turning with thee; Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not; As thou hast been thou forever wilt be. Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 9, 2025
Lent 1 This week’s music: “Led by the Spirit” “Led by the Spirit of our God, we go to fast and pray With Christ into the wilderness; we join his Lenten way. “Rend not your garments, rend your hearts. Turn back your lives to me.” Thus says our kind and gracious God, whose reign is […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 5, 2025 – Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Service music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we can see All the things that really […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 2, 2025
Transfiguration Sunday This week’s music: “O Splendour of God’s Glory Bright” (VU #413) “O splendour of God’s glory bright, from light eternal bringing light; O light of life, light’s living spring, true day, all days illumining; Come, Holy Sun of heavenly love, pour down your radiance from above, And to our inward hearts convey the Holy […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 23, 2025
This Week’s Music: “Love Knocks and Waits” (MV #94) “Love knocks and waits for us to hear, to open and invite; Love longs to quiet every fear, and seeks to set things right. Love offers life, in spite of foes who threaten and condemn; Embracing enemies, Love goes the second mile with them. Love comes to […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 16, 2025
This Week’s Music: “Jesus Calls Us Here to Meet Him” “Jesus calls us here to meet him, as through word and song and prayer, We affirm God’s promised presence where his people live and care. Praise the God who keeps his promise, praise the Son who calls us friends; Praise the Spirit who, among us, […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 9, 2025
This week’s music: “Jesus Calls Us” (VU #562) “Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult of our life’s wild restless sea, Day by day his clear voice sounding, saying, “Christian, follow me.” Long ago apostles heard it by the Galilean lake, Turned from home and toil and kindred, leaving all for Jesus’ sake. Jesus calls us from […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 2, 2025
This week’s music: “Love is the Touch” (MV #89/Tune VU #624) “Love is the touch of intangible joy; Love is the force that no fear can destroy; Love is the goodness we gladly applaud; God is where love is, for love is of God. Love is the lit in a lingering voice; Love is the […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 26, 2025
Third Sunday after Epiphany This week’s music: “Eternal, Unchanging, We Sing” (VU #223) “Eternal, Unchanging, we sing to your praise: Your mercies are endless, and righteous your ways; Your servants proclaim the renown of your name Who rules over all and is ever the same. Again we rejoice in the world you have made, Your mighty […]
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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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