Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday This week’s music: “Joy Comes With the Dawn” (VU #166) “Joy comes with the dawn; Joy comes with the morning sun; Joy springs from the tomb and scatters the night with her song, Joy comes with the dawn. Weeping may come; Weeping may come in the night, when dark shadows cloud our sight. […]
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Notes on the Notes – Good Friday – March 29, 2024
Good Friday Today’s music has been chosen to enhance the Passion narrative of Jesus’ journey to the cross. “We Remember” The opening anthem by Joel Raney (2011) draws us into the Good Friday story by retelling some of the events of Jesus’ ministry and leading us to the phrase “we remember Calvary.” It incorporates the […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 24, 2024
Palm Sunday This week’s music: “He Came Riding on a Donkey” (VU #124) “He came riding on a donkey, he came riding into town; Slow and easy kind of lowly he came riding with the dawn. His disciples walked beside him, staying close, a little shy; Not too sure where he would guide them, on to […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 17, 2024
Lent 5 This week’s music: “I am the Dream” (MV #106) “I am the dream and you the dreamer, I am the song and you are the rhyme. You are the tune sung in every silence. You are the now in the endless stream of time. I am the bell and you the silence. You […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 10, 2024
Fourth Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “Come, Let Us Sing of a Wonderful Love” (VU #574) “Come, let us sing of a wonderful love, Tender and true, tender and true, Out of the heart of the Father above, Streaming to me and to you Wonderful love, wonderful love Dwells in the heart of the Father […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 3, 2024
Third Sunday in Lent 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 25, 2024
Second Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “Take Time to Be Holy” (VU #672) “Take time to be holy, speak oft with your Lord; Abide in him always, and feed on his word. Make friends of God’s children, help those who are weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek. Take time to be holy, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 18, 2024
Lent 1 This week’s music: “Come and Journey with a Saviour” “Come and journey with a Saviour who has called us from our birth, Who has washed us in the waters, and who loved us on the earth. Come and journey, come and journey, with a Saviour who has come. We are all God’s sons […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 11, 2024
Transfiguration Sunday This week’s music: “Open My Eyes” (VU #371) “Open my eyes, that I may see glimpses of truth thou hast for me; place in my hand the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free. Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see. Open my eyes, illumine me, […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 4, 2024
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany This week’s music: “We cannot measure How You Heal” (VU #613) “We cannot measure how you heal or answer every sufferer’s prayer, Yet we believe your grace responds where faith and doubt unite to care. The pain that will not go away, the guilt that clings from things long past, The […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 28, 2024
Fourth Sunday in the season of Epiphany This week’s music is provided by the musicians at Atlantic-Garden City United Church (on-line, with the Worship choir helping lead music at WPUC’s in person service): “Behold, Behold, I Make All Things New” (MV #115) “Behold, behold, I make all things new, beginning with you and starting from […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 21, 2024
Third Sunday after Epiphany This week’s music will be led by the musicians at Windsor Park United Church: “Behold, Behold, I Make All Things New” (MV #115) “Behold, behold, I make all things new, beginning with you and starting from today. Behold, behold, I make all things new, my promise is true, For I am Christ […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 14, 2024
Second Sunday after Epiphany This week’s music will be led by the musicians at Windsor Park United Church: “Behold, Behold, I Make All Things New” (MV #115) “Behold, behold, I make all things new, beginning with you and starting from today. Behold, behold, I make all things new, my promise is true, For I am […]
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Notes on the Notes – January 7, 2024
First Sunday after Epiphany Baptism of Jesus This week’s music will be led by the musicians of Atlantic Garden City United Church: “Behold, Behold, I Make All Things New” (MV #115) “Behold, behold, I make all things new, beginning with you and starting from today. Behold, behold, I make all things new, my promise is […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 31, 2023
First Sunday after Christmas This week’s music: “Before the Marvel of This Night” (VU #40) “Before the marvel of this night Adoring, fold your wings and bow, Then tear the sky apart with light and with your news the world endow. Proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, That fear and death and sorrow cease; […]
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