Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – May 7, 2023
Celebrating 60 Years of U.C.W.! This week’s music: “There’s a Voice in the Wilderness Crying” (VU #18) “There’s a voice in the wilderness crying, a call from the ways untrod: Prepare in the desert a highway, a highway for our God! The valleys shall be exalted, the lofty hills brought low; Make […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 30, 2023
Fourth Sunday of Easter This week’s music: “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You” (VU #232) “Joyful, joyful we adore you God of glory, life and love; Hearts unfold like flowers before you, opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the gloom of doubt away; Giver of immortal gladness, fill us […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 23, 2023
Earth Day Sunday Third Sunday of Easter This week’s music: “It’s a Song of Praise to the Maker” (MV #30) “It’s a song of praise to the Maker, the thrush sings high in the tree. It’s a song of praise to the Maker, the gray whale sings in the sea, And by the Spirit you […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 16, 2023
Second Sunday of Easter/Baptism This week’s music: “Praise to God, Your Praises Show” (VU #875 v 1-3) “Praise to God, your praises show, Hallelujah! Saints within God’s courts below, Hallelujah! Angels round the throne above, Hallelujah! All that see and share God’s love. Hallelujah! Earth to heaven and heaven to earth, Hallelujah! Tell the wonders, […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 9, 2023
Easter Sunday This week’s music: “Halle, Halle, Halle” (VU #958) “Halle, halle, hallelujah! Halle, halle, hallelujah! Halle, halle, hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” We respond to our opening prayer with a traditional Caribbean response, arranged by the Iona Community (1990). See the song used in worship (with additional verses) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7J1EQ3eci4 “Jesus Christ is Risen Today” (VU #155) “Jesus […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 7, 2023
Good Friday Service music: The Good Friday music will be sung as a response to the scripture readings and reflections on the burdens represented. You are invited to use the words of the songs in a time of prayer, reading them aloud and reflecting on them. “I Come to the Cross” “I come to the […]
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Notes on the Notes – April 2, 2023
Palm Sunday This Week’s Music: “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” (VU #123) “Hosanna, loud hosanna!” the happy children sang; Through pillared court and temple the joyful anthem rang; To Jesus, who had blessed them close folded to his breast; The children sang their praises, the simplest and the best. From Olivet they followed ‘mid an exultant crowd, […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 26, 2023
Fifth Sunday in Lent This Week’s Music: “As Comes the Breath of Spring” (VU #373) “As comes the breath of spring with light and mirth and song, So does your Spirit bring new days brave, free, and strong. You come with thrill of life to chase hence winter’s breath, To hush to peace the strife of […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 19, 2023
Fourth Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “I Need Thee Every Hour” (VU #671) “I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord; No tender voice like Thine can peace afford. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee; Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need Thee every […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 12, 2023
Third Sunday in Lent 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 […]
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Notes on the Notes – March 5, 2023
Second Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “In Suffering Love” (VU #614) v 1,2,3,5 “In suffering love the thread of life is woven through our care, For God is with us, not alone our pain and toil we bear. There is a rock, a place secure within the storm’s cold blast; Concealed within the suffering […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 26, 2023
First Sunday in Lent This week’s music: “Throughout These Lenten Days and Nights” (VU #108) “Throughout these Lenten days and nights we turn to walk the inward way, Where, meeting Christ, our guide and light, we live in hope till Easter Day. The pilgrim Christ, the Lamb of God, who found in weakness greater power, Embraces […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 22, 2023
Ash Wednesday Service music: “Beneath the Cross of Jesus” (VU #135) “Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand: The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land, A home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, From the burning of the noon-tide heat and the burden of the day. Upon […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 19, 2023
Transfiguration Sunday This week’s music: “Open Our Eyes, Lord” “Open our eyes, Lord, We want to see Jesus, To reach out and touch him, And say that we love him. Open our ears, Lord, And help us to listen. Open our eyes, Lord, We want to see Jesus.” The words and music for this simple […]
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Notes on the Notes – February 12, 2023
Sixth Sunday of Epiphany “Rules and Regulations” 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 […]
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