Sermon Sept. 7th – Trinity 12

Some good observations on Advent – an old tradition in the Anglican Church is to emphasize the Last Four Things.  Once again a total review of scripture lets us see the totality of God and of this season.  Liberation is offered for all who seek it. Essay Advent, like Lent, can seem difficult to characterize:…

  Written by a new blessing that God has brought to St. Michael the Archangel.  Enjoy. Click picture for printed version.   Audio version

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…

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…

CHAPTER 7   Reading of Scripture within the Community of Faith: Is shaped by our common worship, we also carry forward the old tradition of meeting for the purpose of reading and coming to terms with scripture.  There we learn the power of the voices and the power of the stories within the text to…

Please forgive me if I seem a little tired, but this has been one heck of a night, and I am afraid the day is going to be even more brutal.  Say again, what’s that?  What am I talking about?  Have you not heard? … the word is swirling around the city this morning, and…