Notes on the Notes
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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Notes on the Notes – December 24, 2023
Christmas Eve Service Music: “A Candle is Burning” (VU #6) “A candle is burning, a flame warm and bright, A candle of hope in December’s dark night. While angels sing blessing from heaven’s starry sky, Our hearts we prepare now for Jesus is nigh. A candle is burning, a candle of peace, A candle to signal […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 20, 2023
Longest Night 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 17, 2023
Advent 3 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 born […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 10, 2023
Advent 2 This week’s music: “All Earth is Waiting” (VU #5) “All earth is waiting to see the Promised One, and open furrows await the seed of God. All the world, bound and struggling, seeks true liberty; it cries out for justice and searches for the truth. Thus says the prophet to those of Israel, “A […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 3, 2023
Advent 1 This week’s music: “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (VU #2) “Come, thou long-expected Jesus, born to set they people free: From our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. Born thy people to deliver; born a child and yet a king; Born to reign in us for ever; now thy […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 26, 2023
Reign of Christ Sunday This week’s 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 19, 2023
This week’s music: “We are Pilgrims (The Servant Song)” (VU #595) “We are pilgrims on a journey, fellow travelers on the road; We are here to help each other walk the mile and bear the load. Sister, let me be your servant, let me be as Christ to you; Pray that I may have the grace to […]
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