Morning Prayer Tuesday Sept 3

Why Millennials Long for Liturgy: Is the High Church the Christianity of the future? From The American Conservative: America’s youth are leaving churches in droves. One in four young adults choose “unaffiliated” when asked about their religion, according to a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute poll, and 55 percent of those unaffiliated youth once had a…

Musical Notes For June 9  Whitsunday (Pentecost) Prelude:  Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist    J. S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German Baroque composer and organist, wrote his setting of the chorale Komm, Gott Schöpfer with the tune in the soprano and afterwards in the bass. This 16th century tune is a simplified adaptation by Martin Luther…

Ascension Day Sermon from May 30 2019 The statement in the Creeds that Christ “ascended into heaven” is based primarily upon Acts I : 1-9 where, after 40 days of appearances, the Risen Lord speaks to the Apostles about the coming of the Holy Ghost and the Church’s mission, and is taken up in a…

Easter High Mass 2022 – Handel’s Messiah Behold the Lamb of God Begins around 5-minute mark; Sermon at around 35-minute mark, and Behold the Lamb of God at around 1 hour 14-minute mark-minute mark.  Thanks to everyone who did such a fantastic job…Indeed, He Is Risen!

Musical Notes:  June 26, 2019   Prelude                                Toccata on the Doxology                              Darwin Wolford Louis Bourgeois (1510-1559), a French disciple of the Swiss reformer John Calvin composed tunes for the French Psalter in 1561. Several of his tunes are used today, including Old Hundreth (the Doxology sung weekly). The tune is heard in a lively setting…

The Eucharist as Refreshment For us as we approach the Fourth Sunday in Lent… – Mid Lent Our Lord Jesus Christ calls us, beckons us, to refreshment this day as we take a hopefully well-deserved pause from our Lenten discipline, and lighten the mood with the festal vestments and colour of rose.  It is time…