Passion Sunday 2021 Holy Eucharist

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…

Who hasn’t felt the urge to scream at the top of their lungs, “I’m free to be what I want?” The question is, “Are you?” The answer is complicated—in some ways you are, but in some ways, you aren’t. We have all been in situations where we felt pressure to conform to someone else’s expectations…

Prelude Prelude on “Picardy”                      Jeanne E. Shaffer Offertory The Peaceable Things                    Clay R. Christiansen Postlude Postlude for Full Organ                  George E. Whiting Jeanne Shaffer (1925-2007) was chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Huntingdon College and organist-director at All Saints Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Her composition on the folk tune from Picardy is a…

  The Full Gospel According to the Church’s Calendar As Presented in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Click Here A multi-year project by Fr. Allen Fischer who will be joining St. Michael the Archangel on May 1st.  His scholarly work will be a blessing to our Church.  We are excited by the arrival of…

ADVENT The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann The Very Rev’d Richard E Backley   The Season of Advent, which begins our Christian Year, has an interesting history. We have to understand, first of all, that the very early Christian Church did not put the emphasis on Christmas that we do today. The principal celebration of this…