Podcast 5 Feb 2012

1) Nuhro (Hymn of Light) – excerpt 1; Karl Henning; Scholars 2009
2) Opening
3) Nuhro-excerpt 2
4) Reading
5) Nuhro-excerpt 3
6) Sermon
7) Surge Illuminare, William Byrd; Scholars 2008
8) Prayers
9) Nuhro-excerpt 4
10) Closing
11) Nuhro-excerpt 5

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 29, 2012

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading
Excerpt from Encounters with Chinese Writers by Annie Dillard

We are all going up to Malibu for dinner; Zhang Jie and Allen Ginsberg are sitting in the back of the van. Between them, by chance, sits an interpreter. Zhang Jie is dressed to the nines, in a severely tailored blue dress.

How did it get started between them? I witness only the climax: “Mr. Ginsberg!” Zhang Jie is leaning forward fiercely over the interpreters knees. Her slender shoulders are squared. “You should not think only of yourself! You must live and work so as to fulfill your obligations! Have your goals firmly in your mind. You should not take drugs! Thank of your responsibility to society. As for myself, my goal are always clear. My mind is never confused!”

Ginsberg smiles his intelligent, vulnerable smile and tilts his head like the Cheshire cat.

“My mind,” he says with the tiniest shrug, “is always confused.”
4) The Call, Leo Nestor; The Cathedral Scholars, 2007
5) Gospel read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity, Concord
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey
8) Fix Me, Spiritual, Hall Johnson; The Cathedral Scholars, 2008
9) Prayers
10) Veneration tag
11) Closing
12) God So Loved the World tag

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 22, 2012

1) Deep River tag
2) Opening
3) Reading
4) Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paulus; Cathedral Scholars, 2007
5) Gospel read by Jan Boyd, Trinity, Haverhill
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon, preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone
8) Up to the Mountain, Patti Griffin; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist; with Rakalam Bob Moses, drums
9) Prayers
10)Veneration tag
11)Closing
12)Dreamer, Suzanne Sterling; Ed Broms soloist; with Rakalam Bob Moses, drums (text below)

Dreamer; Suzanne Sterling

Laying here before You
I dance under your moon
And naked here before You
A bag of bones

I cannot see my way
I cannot see anything at all
I’m standing at the crossroads
And I don’t know which way to go

I’m dyin’ down here
Sometimes all I see is despair
Sometimes I hear music
I hear music
I hear music that noone else can hear

Oh Dreamer Dreamer Dream Dreamer
Ooh my Dreamer Dream Dreamer
Oh Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer ah!

I must see Your face
I will whisper in your ear
You are the breath inside the breath
Inside the breath inside the breath
And I surrender

And I will listen
And I will try to be strong yeah
I will sing Your Praises
I will sing Your Praises
I will sing Your freedom song

Chorus

I sing praises to the one who is made of the sun
I sing praises to the queen of the dark
I sing praises to the flame of the soul
We are eternal

Chorus

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 15, 2012

1) Let Us Worship Christ, Yolanda Adams; Lori Dow, soloist, 2008
2) Opening
3) Reading From “A Testament of Hope” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force that will bring new light to this dark city. The holy Scripture says, "A little child shall lead them." The death of these little children may lead our whole Southland from the low road of man's inhumanity to man to the high road of peace and brotherhood. These tragic deaths may lead our nation to substitute an aristocracy of character for an aristocracy of color. The spilled blood of these innocent girls may cause the whole citizenry of Birmingham to transform the negative extremes of a dark past into the positive extremes of a bright future. Indeed this tragic event may cause the white South to come to terms with its conscience.

And so I stand here to say this afternoon to all assembled here, that in spite of the darkness of this hour we must not despair. We must not become bitter, nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate with violence. No, we must not lose faith in our white brothers. Somehow we must believe that the most misguided among them can learn to respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.

4) Yes, Lord, hymn 2008
5) Reading
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit “What’s in a Name?”
8) Come Sunday, Duke Ellington; Patrice Williamson, soloist, 2009
9) Prayers
10) The Lord’s Prayer, Albert Hay Malotte, arr. Ed Broms; Lori Dow, soloist, 2008
11) Closing
12) We Shall Come Over, Ardie Walser; Ed Broms, piano and vocals

Podcast 8 JAN 2012

1) Deep River, Glenn Burleigh; Jamie Lynn Hart 2008
2) Opening

Peggy Lutz, Fred Muth by John Updike
They've been in my fiction; both now dead,
Peggy just recently, long stricken (like
my Grandma) with Parkinson's disease.
But what a peppy knockout Peggy was!-
cheerleader, hockey star, May Queen, RN.
Pigtailed in kindergarten, she caught my mother's
eye, but she was too much girl for me.
Fred - so bright, so quietly wry - his

mother's eye fell on me, a "nicer" boy
than her son's pet pals. Fred's slight wild streak
was tamed by diabetes. At the end,
it took his toes and feet. Last time we met,
his walk rolled wildly, fetching my coat. With health
he might have soared. As was, he taught me smarts.

Dear friends of childhood, classmates, thank you,
scant hundred of you, for providing a
sufficiency of human types: beauty,
bully, hangers-on, natural,
twin, and fatso - all a writer needs,
all there in Shillington, its trolley cars
and little factories, cornfields, and trees,
leaf fires, snowflakes, pumpkins, valentines.

To think of you brings tears less caustic
than those the thought of death brings. Perhaps
we meet our heaven at the start and not
the end of life. Even then were tears
and fear and struggle, but the town itself
draped in plain glory the passing days.

The town forgave me for existing, it
included me in Christmas carols, songfests
(though I sand poorly) at the Shillington,
the local movie house. My father stood,
in back, too restless to sit, but everybody
knew his name, and mine. In turn I knew
my Granddad in the overalled town crew.
I've written these before, these modest facts,

but their meaning has no bottom in my mind.
The fragments in their jiggled scope collide
to form more sacred windows. I had to move
to beautiful New England - its triple
deckers, whited churches, unplowed streets -
to learn how drear and deadly life can be.

3) Epiphany Alleluias, John Weaver; Scholars 2007
4) Reading
5) Alleluia tag
6) Sermon
7) I Wonder As I Wander, John Jacob Niles; Caroline Musica 2007
8) Prayers
9) Veneration tag
10) Closing
11) God So Loved the World tag

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for January 1, 2012

1) Lully Lulla, Trad.; Scholars, 2011
2) Opening
3) Reading From “The Stillness We Seek” by The Rev. Cathy George
Tears are a gift. What if God had made us without them? We are meant neither to hold them back nor to make too much of them. They are simply the apparatus God has given us to express feelings that run deeper than words: tears of joy, tears of sorrow, tears of pain. Some of us cry easily and frequently while others can hardly remember the last time we cried. Tears are evoked by sights we see, by beauty, by the emotions of others, by music, by pain, loss, and tragedy.
God feeds us with the “bread of tears” and “bowls of tears to drink” as certainly as with a crusty loaf of warm bread on our dinner table and a bowl of soup when we are hungry. Don’t force upon your tears the tyranny of understanding. Let them be. Let them come. They are making sense of your life in ways your mind cannot. Let them release the joy of a wedding, the pain of a divorce, the sadness of grief, the loss of a loved one. Tears are a gift from God.
4) God Bless the Child, Holiday/Herzog; Sara Bielanski, soloist; Rich Kelley, flugelhorn, 2007
5) Gospel read by David Prentice, St. John's, Gloucester
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit “What’s in a Name?”
8) O Magnum Mysterium, Francis Poulenc; Scholars, 2007 (text and translation below)
9) Prayers
10) Veneration tag
11) Closing
12) God So Loved the World tag

Latin text
O magnum mysterium,
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
jacentem in praesepio!
Beata Virgo, cujus viscera
meruerunt portare
Dominum Christum.
Alleluia.
English translation
O great mystery,
and wonderful sacrament,
that animals should see the new-born Lord,
lying in a manger!
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb
was worthy to bear
Christ the Lord.
Alleluia!

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for December 25, 2011

1) Deep River tag
2) Opening
3) Her Long Illness
Daybreak until nightfall,
he sat by his wife at the hospital
while chemotherapy dripped
through the catheter into her heart.
He drank coffee and read
the Globe. He paced; he worked
on poems; he rubbed her back
and read aloud. Overcome with dread,
they wept and affirmed
their love for each other, witlessly,
over and over again.
When it snowed one morning Jane gazed
at the darkness blurred
with flakes. They pushed the IV pump
which she called Igor
slowly past the nurses' pods, as far
as the outside door
so that she could smell the snowy air.
4) Silent Night, arr. Leo Abbott; The Cathedral Scholars, 2011
5) Gospel Reading read by John Anderson, Trinity, Concord
6) Listen to the Shepherd tag
7) Sermon
8) O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen; The Cathedral Scholars, 2011 (text and translation below)
9) Prayers
10) Go Tell It, Kirk Franklin/Blessed; Blessed-The Cathedral Gospel Choir, Rebecca Muir, soloist, 2010 (studio recording)
11) Closing
12) Joy to the World, hymn; Rich Kelley, trumpet, 2010

Latin text
O magnum mysterium,
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
jacentem in praesepio!
Beata Virgo, cujus viscera
meruerunt portare
Dominum Christum.
Alleluia.
English translation
O great mystery,
and wonderful sacrament,
that animals should see the new-born Lord,
lying in a manger!
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb
was worthy to bear
Christ the Lord.
Alleluia!

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for December 18, 2011

1) Motet for the Annunciation, Frank Ferko; Cathedral Scholars 2006
2) Opening
3) Gospel Reading read by Holiday Houck, Trinity, Boston
4) Ave, Dulcissima Maria, Julian Wachner; Cathedral Scholars 2009
5) Reading
6) Listen to the Shepherd tag
7) Sermon, Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey
8) A Spotless Rose, Herbert Howells; Cathedral Scholars 2006
9) Prayers
10)I Want to Be Ready tag
11)Closing
12)There Is No Rose, Edward A. Broms; Cathedral Scholars 2006

December 11, 2011
Sacred Time Podcast from St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral
1) Deep River tag
2) Opening
3) Reading
The Temptation to be Relevant
Excerpted from In the Name of Jesus by Henry J.M. Nouwen
The first thing that struck me when I came to live in a house with mentally handicapped people was that their liking or disliking me had absolutely nothing to do with any of the many useful things I had done until then. Since nobody could read my books, they could not impress anyone, and since most of them never went to school, my twenty years at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard did not provide a significant introduction. My considerable ecumenical experience proved even less valuable. When I offered some meat to one of the assistants during dinner, one of the handicapped men said to me, “Don’t give him meat., he doesn’t eat meat, he’s a Presbyterian.”
Not able to use any of the skills that had proved so practical in the past was a real source of anxiety. I was suddenly faced with my naked self, open for affirmations and rejections, hugs and punches, smiles and tears, all dependent simply on how I was perceived at the moment. In a way, it seemed as though I was starting my life all over again. Relationships, connections, reputations could no longer be counted on.
This experience was and, in many ways, is still the most experience of my new life because it forced me to rediscover my true identity. These broken, wounded and completely unpretentious people forced me to let go of my relevant self—the self that can do things, show things, prove things, build things—and forced me to reclaim that unadorned self in which I am completely vulnerable, open to receive and give love regardless of any accomplishments.
4) Lost in the Wilderness, Scwartz/Caird; J.Thomas Morris, tenor, 2011
5) Gospel read by Lynn Clark, Cathedral Staff
6) Listen to the Shepherd tag
7) Sermon: I Am Note preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey
8) Adam lay bounden, Carson Cooman; Cathedral Scholars, 2009
9) Prayers
10) Hard Times Come Again No More, Stephen Foster, Cathedral Cantorum, 2011
11) Closing
12) Jesus Loves Me, Trad.; Cathedral Cantorum, 2011

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 27, 2011

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Excerpt from The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: “Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.
4) Ev’n So Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz; Cathedral Scholars, 2006
5) Reading read by Pace Willison, Christ Church, Medway
6) Listen to the Shepherd, tag
7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone
8) Rorate Caeli, Leo Nestor (text and translation below); Cathedral Scholars, 2006
9) Prayers
10)I Want to Be Ready, tag
11)Closing
12)God So Loved the World, tag
Latin text
Rorate caeli desuper, et nubes pluant justum: aperiatur terra, et germinet salvatorem.
Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob.
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
English translation
Drop down ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: Let the earth open and bring forth a Saviour.
Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 20, 2011

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Excerpt from Dorothy Day, A Radical Devotion by Robert Coles
In the spring of 1952, I was a medical student ready to abandon the idea of medicine. I showed up at the Catholic Worker soup kitchen on the Lower East Side in New York. I had decided to try to be of help, to do some volunteer work, and remembered hearing of this place. It was on that afternoon, almost thirty-five years ago, that I first met Dorothy Day. She was sitting at a table, talking with a woman who was, I quickly realized, quite drunk, yet determined to carry on a conversation.
I found myself increasingly confused by what seemed to be an interminable, essentially absurd exchange taking place between the two middle-aged women. When would it end—the alcoholic ranting and the silent nodding, occasionally interrupted by a brief question, which only served, maddeningly, to wind up the already over talkative one rather than wind her down? Finally, silence fell upon the room. Dorothy Day asked the woman if she would mind an interruption. She got up and came over to me. She said, “Are you waiting to talk with one of us?”
One of us: with those three words she had cut through layers of self-importance, a lifetime of bourgeois privilege, and scraped the hard bone of pride…With those three words, so quietly and politely spoken, she had indirectly told me what the Catholic Worker Movement is all about and what she herself was like.
There would be other lessons, many just as hard to absorb and keep alive within myself. Dorothy Day was a most determined teacher, well aware that in those, like me, who came to learn from her, modesty and humility are poses difficult to sustain for long stretches of time.
4) Exultate Deo, Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 2009
5) Gospel Reading read by Elizabeth Eaton, St. Peter's, Weston
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey

8) Hands, Jewel; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist, 2011
9) Prayers
10)Veneration Chant, Jason Cohen
11)God So Loved the World tag

Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for November 13, 2011

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Prayer by Marie Howe

Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important
calls for my attention—the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage

I need to buy for the trip.
Even now I can hardly sit here

among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside
already screeching and banging.

The mystics say you are as close as my own breath.
Why do I flee from you?

My days and nights pour through me like complaints
and become a story I forgot to tell.

Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning
to rise from the chair as soon as I finish this sentence.

4) Prayer For Generosity, Michael Burog; Cathedral Scholars, 2010
5) Gospel Reading read by Brett Donham, St. Paul’s, Brookline
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon: “The Terrible Parable of the Talents” preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey
8) Pursuance, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 2009
9) Prayers
10) Veneration Procession, Jason Cohen, 2010
11) Closing
12) God So Loved the World tag

Podcast 11.6.11

1. Introit for All Saints Richard Shepherd 2010
2. Opening
3. Reading
Excerpt from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

No one, least of all the organist, could find the opening hymn. Then no one knew it. Then no one could sing anyway.

There was no sermon, only announcements.

The priest proudly introduced the rascally acolyte who was going to light the two Advent candles. As we all could plainly see, the rascally acolyte had already lighted them.

During the long intercessory prayer, the priest always reads “Intentions” from the parishioners. These are slips of paper, dropped into a box before the service begins, on which people have written their private concerns, by one, and we respond on cue. “For a baby safely delivered on November 20th,” the priest intones, “we pray to the Lord.” We all responded, “Lord, hear our prayer.” Suddenly the priest broke in and confided to our bowed heads, “That’s the baby we’ve been praying for the past two months! The woman just kept getting more and more pregnant!” How often, how shockingly often, have I exhausted myself in church from the effort to keep from laughing out loud? I often laugh all the way home. Then the priest read the next intention. “For my son, that he may forgive his father. We pray to the Lord.” “Lord, hear our prayer,” we responded, chastened.

A high school stage play is more polished than this service we have been rehearsing since the year one. In two thousand years, we have not worked out the kinks. We positively glorify them. Week after week we witness the same miracle: that God is so mighty he can stifle his own laughter. Week after week Christ washes the disciples’ dirty feet, handles their very toes, and repeats. It is all right—believe it or not—to be people.

Who can believe it?

4. Litanei Franz Schubert Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano; Aaaron Styles, Bass 2010
5. Gospel read by Taylor Anderson, Trinity, Concord
6. Alleluia tag
7. Sermon preach by Dean Streit
8. Edidem, Offiong Bassey, 2011
9. Prayers
10. Beati, Taize/Broms, with Offiong Bassey 2011
11. Closing
12. Resolution from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (same personnel and info as last week's Coltrane piece etc

October 30, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh

Sometimes things don't go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes step back from war;
elect an honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen to you

1) Lord, Make to Know Thy Ways, William Byrd; Cathedral Cantorum, 2011
2) Gospel Reading read by Sue Kelly, Diocesan Staff
3) Alleluia tag
4) Sermon preached by Dean Streit

5) That They May Rest; Cathedral Scholars 2010
6) Prayers
7) Veneration Procession tag
8) Closing
9) Acknowledgement, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 2009
10) God So Loved the World tag

All music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist.

October 23, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

The Star Market by Marie Howe

The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday.
An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout
breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.

Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and
hawking into his hand. The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them:
shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Market

had declared a day off for the able-bodied, and I had wandered in
with the rest of them—sour milk, bad meat—
looking for cereal and spring water.

Jesus must have been a saint, I said to myself, looking for my lost car
in the parking lot later, stumbling among the people who would have
been lowered into rooms by ropes, who would have crept

out of caves or crawled from the corners of public baths on their hands
and knees begging for mercy.

If I touch only the hem of his garment, one woman thought,
could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?

4) If Ye Love Me, Richard DeLong; The Cathedral Scholars, 2008
5) Gospel read by Charlie Evett, All Saints, Brookline
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon “The God I Don’t Believe In” preached by Dean Streit
8) South African Creed
9) Prayers
10) Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure; The Cathedral Scholars, 2009 (text and translation below)
11) Closing
12) Psalm, from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane; Timo Shanko, tenor saxophone, Ed Broms, piano, Luther Gray, drums, Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; January 16th, 2009 (text below)
13) God So Loved the World tag

All music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist.

I will do all I can to be worthy of Thee O Lord. It all has to do with it. Thank you God. Peace. There is none other. God is, It is so beautiful. Thank you God. God is all. Help us to resolve our fears and weaknesses. Thank you God. In You all things are possible. We know. God made us so. Keep your eye on God. God is. He always was. He always will be. No matter what…it is God. He is gracious and merciful. It is most important that I know Thee. Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions – time – all related…all made from one…all made in one. Blessed be His name. Thought waves – heat waves – all vibrations – all paths lead to God. Thank you God. His way…it is so lovely…it is gracious. It is merciful – thank you God. His way…it is so lovely…it is gracious. It is merciful – thank you God. One thought can produce millions of vibrations and they all go back to God…everything does. Thank you God. Have no fear…believe…thank you God.

The universe has many wonders. God is all. His way…it is so wonderful. Thoughts – deeds – vibrations, etc. They all go back to God and He cleanses all. He is gracious and merciful…thank you God. Glory to God…God is so alive. God is. God loves. May I be acceptable in Thy sight. We are all one in His grace. The fact that we do exist is acknowledgement of Thee of Lord. Thank you God. God will wash away all our tears…He always has…He always will. Seek Him everyday. In all ways seek God everyday. Let us sing all songs to God To whom all praise is due…praise God. No road is an easy one, but they all go back to God. With all we share God. It is all with God. It is all with Thee. Obey the Lord. Blessed is He. We are from one thing…the will of God…thank you God.

I have seen God – I have seen ungodly – none can be greater – none can compare to God. Thank you God. He will remake us…He always has and He always will. It is true – blessed be His name – thank you God. God breathes through us so completely…so gently we hardly feel it…yet, it is our everything. Thank you God. ELATION – ELEGANCE – EXALTATION – All from God. Thank you God. Amen. [John Coltrane – December, 1964]
Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance,
Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;
De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence,
Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux!

Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,
Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;
Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante,
Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!

O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèle
Pour te bénir maintenant rassemblé.
Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,
Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé!
Word, equal to the Most High, our only hope,
Eternal day of the earth and the heavens,
From the peaceful night we break the silence,
Divine Savior, cast your eyes upon us!

Spread upon us the fire of your powerful wisdom
May all hell flee at the sound of your voice;
Dispel that slumber of a languishing soul,
Which has driven it to forget your way!

Oh Christ, be favourable to this faithful people
Now gathered to bless you.
Receive the songs it offers to your immortal glory,
And may it return filled with your gifts!

October 16, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Excerpt from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Jep suggests that this selection is true about praying as well as running:

So I try, in the short amount of time I have, to take care of all these things as best I can. And I have to keep up my running to prepare for the NYC marathon. Even if there were two of me, I still couldn’t do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I’m not going to lay off or quit just because I’m busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do it keep those few reasons nicely polished.
4) Of Righteousness, Richard Shepherd; Cathedral Scholars, 2006
5) Gospel reading read by Betsy Munzer, St. Paul's, Brookline
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Canon Steven Bonsey
8) Os Justi, Anton Bruckner; Cathedral Scholars, 2010
9) Prayers
10) Jesus on the Wire, Thea Hopkins; Thea Hopkins, guitar and vocal; 2008
11) Closing
12) Great Day, Glenn Burleigh; Cathedral Scholars, 2008

All music recorded live at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Edward A. Broms, Music Director and Organist.

October 9, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

The Journey by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.

4) Locus Iste, Anton Bruckner, The Cathedral Scholars, 2011
5) Gospel reading read by Joan Gorga, St. John's, Gloucester
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit
8) Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee, Eric Thiman; J.Thomas Morris, tenor, 2011
9) Prayers
10) Tantum Ergo, Anton Bruckner, The Cathedral Scholars, 2011
11) Closing
12) I’ll Fly Away, Trad.; The Cathedral Cantorum, Sara Bielanski and Jamie Lynn Hart, soloists, 2011
13) God So Loved the World tag

October 2, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s
1) Steal Away tag
2) A Cosmic Prayer, Carson Cooman; The Cathedral Scholars, 2009
3) Opening and non-scriptural reading
4) Horses In My Dreams, PJ Harvey; Ed Broms, piano and vocal, 2008
5) Gospel reading read by Diane Pound, Diocesan Staff
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by Dean Streit
8) Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace, John Rutter; The Cathedral Scholars, 2009
9) Prayers
10) A Prayer for Generosity, Michael Burgo; The Cathedral Scholars, 2009
11) Closing
12) All Creatures of Our God and King, hymn
13) The Spider, Steve Walsh; Ed Broms, organ, 2007
14) God So Loved the World tag

"Horses In My Dreams" (PJ Harvey)

Horses in my dreams
Like waves, like the sea
They pull out of here
They pull, they are free

Rode a horse around the world
Along the tracks of a train
Broke the record, found the gold
Set myself free again

I have pulled myself clear

Horses in my dreams
Like waves, like the sea
On the tracks of a train
Set myself free again

I have pulled myself clear

September 25, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

To be of use, by Marge Piercy

The people I love the best
Jump into work head first
Without dallying in the shallows
And swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
The black sleek heads of seals
Bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
Who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
Who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
Who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
In the task, who go into the fields to harvest
And work in a row and pass the bags along,
Who are not parlor generals and field deserters
But move in a common rhythm
When the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
Has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
But you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
And a person for work that is real.

4) I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, Sinead O’Connor; Jamie Lynn Hart, soloist, 2011
5) Gospel Reading (Matthew 21:23-32) read by Lynn Clark, Christ Church, Quincy
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone: Is There Encouragement in Christ?
8) When He Returns, Bob Dylan; Sara Bielanski, soloist, 2008
9) Prayers
10) Veneration Processional tag
11) O Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins; The Cathedral Gospel Choir (Blessed), Elisa Lomazzo, soloist, 2011
12) God So Loved the World tag

Podcast 18 Sep 2011

1) Steal Away tag
2) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 2
3) Opening
4) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 3
5) Reading
6) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 4, Blake’s Pancakes: dedicated to pianist Ran Blake
7) Sermon
8) My Friend, Ed Broms, Ed Broms, piano and vocal
9) Prayers
10) God Bless America, Irving Berlin; Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms from the CD “God Bless America” Track 5
11) Closing
12) Birds of the Abyss, Piano Improvisation by Ed Broms, based on the clarinet solo of the same title from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”, dedicated to Sonia Maneri


MY FRIEND
(by Ed Broms)

Been such a long time
Traveling this road
Trying to find my Savior
Gonna lighten her load
One thing I know
I'm not alone

I've seen you up ahead, my friend
I've watched you down below
Running so fast child
Walking so slow
One thing I know
There's more than one way to go

If I climb the mountain
Before I die
And meet with my Maker
By touching the sky
I promise you
I won't leave you behind

If you find your way
Back to your home
And dem bones they rise again
To roll back the stone
One thing I know
You won't be alone

If you find the Truth in there
Then tell me no lies
If you don't see me there
Out in that Light
Then won't you please
Show me a sign

Cause one thing I know
I am your friend

September 11, 2011 – Sacred Time Podcast at St. Paul’s

1) Call to Remembrance, Carson Cooman; Cathedral Scholars 2009
2) Opening and Reading
3) Timor et Tremor, Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 2009
4) Gospel read by Judith Lidberg, SSJE Monastery, Cambridge, and member of Diocesan Staff
5) Vinea Me Electa, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 2009
6) Sermon, Preached by The Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey
7) O Vos Omnes, Pablo Casals; Cathedral Scholars, 2007
8) Prayers
9) Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 2009
10) Closing
11) Nuhro (Light), Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars, 2009

Sacred Time Podcast August 28, 2011
1. Veneration tag
2. Opening
3. Reading:

God is the Mirror
Shira Freewoman

God is the mirror you look into
You see her
Smiling back at you
Dancing.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness means
You put down the sword
You aim towards
Your own heart.
Instead,
You pick up
The child in you
And kiss it
‘Til s/he smiles back
The love you thought you lost.

4. Call To Remembrance, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars 2007
5. Reading. Read by Pace Willison, Christ Church, Medway
6. Alleluia tag
7. Sermon preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone
8. Tristis Est Anima Mea, Leo Abbott; Cathedral Scholars 2007
9. Prayers
10. The New Medicine Song tag
11. Closing
12. God So Loved the World tag

1. Veneration tag
2. Opening
3. Reading
“The Planned Child” from The Wellspring by Sharon Olds

I hated the fact that they had planned me, she had taken
a cardboard out of his shirt from the laundry
as if sliding the backbone up out of his body,
and made a chart of the month and put
her temperature on it, rising and falling,
to know the day to make me—I would have
liked to have been conceived in heat,
in haste, by mistake, in love, in sex,
not on cardboard, the little x on the
rising line that did not fall again.

But when a friend was pouring wine
and said that I seem to have been a child who had been wanted,
I took the wine against my lips
as if my mouth were moving along
that valved wall in my mother’s body, she was
bearing down, and then breathing from the mask, and then
bearing down, pressing me out into
the world that was not enough for her without me in it,
not the moon, the sun, Orion
cartwheeling across the dark, not
the earth, the sea—none of it
was enough, for her, without me.
4. Anima Christi, Robert Bird, Cathedral Scholars 2007
5. Reading read by Suzette Phillips, St. John's, Taunton
6. Alleluia tag
7. Sermon
8. The Walls of Zion, Aaron Copeland; Cathedral Scholars 2007
9. Prayers
10. The New Medicine Song tag
11. Closing
12. God So Loved the World tag

1) Easter Cantata, Prelude, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011
2) Opening
3) Reading:
“Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon

I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
peach. It might
have been otherwise.
I took a dog uphill
to the birch wood.
All morning I did
the work I love.

At noon I lay down
with my mate. It might
have been otherwise.
We ate dinner together
at a table with silver
candlesticks. It might
have been otherwise.
I slept in a bed
in a room with paintings
on the walls, and
planned another day
just like this day.
But one day, I know,
it will be otherwise.

4) Easter Cantata 1, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011
5) Reading read by Brett Donham, St. Paul’s, Brookline
6) Easter Cantata 2, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011
7) Sermon, Isaac Everett
8) Easter Cantata 3, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011
9) Prayers
10) Closing
11) Easter Cantata 4, Daniel Pinkham; Cathedral Scholars 2011

Podcast 7 AUG 2011:

1) Veneration tag
2) Yes, Lord, Trad.; Cathedral Scholars, 2008
3) Opening
4) Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paullus; Cathedral Scholars, 2008
5) Reading
6) Alleluia tag
7) Sermon, Rathbone
8) Bless the Lord, O My Soul, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars, 2007
9) Prayers
10) The New Medicine Song tag
11) Closing
12) Organ Symphony #1, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms and Peter Krasinski, organ (Both performers at one console); 2008

Sacred Time Podcast 31 Jul 2011:

1) Veneration Chant, Jason Cohen, tag
2) Down to the River to Pray, Traditional; Cathedral Scholars, Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano, 2006
3) Opening
4) Great Day, Trad., arranged by Moses Hogan; Cathedral Scholars, Jamie Urquhart, Soprano, 2007
5) Reading
6) Alleluia in D, Karl Henning, tag
7) Sermon: Cameron Partridge
8) Deep River, Trad., arranged by Paul Ayres; Cathedral Scholars, Caroline Musica, Soprano, 2008
9) Prayers
10) The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen, tag
11) Closing
12) Organ Symphony #1, Movement #4, Var. 9, 10, 11, 12, Edward A. Broms; Edward Broms, organ, 2008
13) God So Loved the World, John Steiner, tag

Podcast 24 July 2011

1) Veneration of the Tree of Life, tag
2) Phos Hilaron, James Woodman; Cathedral Scholars, 2009 (text below)
3) Opening
West Wind #2 by Mary Oliver

You are young. So you know everything. You leap
into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.
Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without
any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and
your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to
me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent
penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a
dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile
away and still out of sight, the churn of the water
as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the
sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable
pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth
and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls
plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life
toward it.

4) Jubilate Deo, Benjamin Britten; Cathedral Scholars, 2007
5) Gospel read by Philip Welton, St. John the Evangelist, Boston
6) Alleluia, tag
7) Sermon, The Rev. Canon Bonsey: A weed for Seeing
8) Cantique De Jean Racine, Gabriel Faure; Cathedral Scholars, 2008 (text below)
9) Prayers
10) The New Medicine Song, tag
11) Closing
12) Organ Symphony #1, Movement 4, Variation 7 (Bulgarian Kopanitsa in 11/16), and Variation 8; Edward A. Broms, organ (Var. 7); and Peter Krasinski, organ (Var. 8); 2008
13) God So Loved the World, tag

O Gladsome Light of the Holy Glory of the Immortal Father, Heavenly, Holy, Blessed Jesus Christ! Now that we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening, we praise God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For meet it is at all times to worship Thee with voices of praise. O Son of God and Giver of Life, therefore all the world doth glorify Thee.
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Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance,
Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;
De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence,
Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux!

Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,
Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;
Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante,
Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!

O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèle
Pour te bénir maintenant rassemblé.
Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,
Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé!

Word, equal to the Most High, our only hope,
Eternal day of the earth and the heavens,
From the peaceful night we break the silence,
Divine Savior, cast your eyes upon us!

Spread upon us the fire of your powerful wisdom
May all hell flee at the sound of your voice;
Dispel that slumber of a languishing soul,
Which has driven it to forget your way!

Oh Christ, be favourable to this faithful people
Now gathered to bless you.
Receive the songs it offers to your immortal glory,
And may it return filled with your gifts!

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.17.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

T.G.T.T. (Too Good To Title), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson , Ed Broms, piano, 2011

Opening

Reading

Excerpt from Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses

When I was in high school in the early sixties, nice girls didn’t go all the way—most of us wouldn’t have known how to. But man, could we kiss! We kissed for hours in the busted-up front seat of a borrowed Chevy, which, in motion, sounded like a broken dinette set; we kissed inventively, clutching our boyfriends from behind as we straddled motorcycles, whose vibrations turned our hips to jelly; we kissed extravagantly beside a turtlearium in the park, or at the local rose garden or zoo; we kissed delicately, in waves of sipping and puckering; we kissed torridly, with tongues like hot pokers; we kissed timelessly, because lovers throughout the ages knew our longing; we kissed wildly, almost painfully, with tough, soul-stealing rigor; we kissed elaborately, as if we were inventing kisses for the first time; we kissed furtively when we met in the hallways between classes; we kissed soulfully in the shadows at concerts, the way we thought musical knights of passion like The Righteous Brothers and their ladies did; we kissed articles of clothing or objects belonging to our boyfriends; we kissed our hands when we blew our boyfriends kisses across the street; we kissed our pillows at night, pretending they were mates; we kissed shamelessly, with all the robust sappiness of youth; we kissed as if kissing could save us from ourselves.

Heaven, Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson , Ed Broms, piano, 2011

Gospel: Read by Joan Gorga, St. Johns, Gloucester

Alleluia tag

Sermon Preached by the Reverend Canon Steven Bonsey

Almighty God (Has Those Angels), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson, Ed Broms, piano, 2011

Prayers

Veneration tag

Closing

Long As You’re Living, Abbie Lincoln, Oscar Brown, Jr.; Aubrey Johnson, vocals http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson, Ed Broms, piano, 2011

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.10.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Veneration Processional, Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011

Opening

Reading
Poem by e. e. cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Sweetness is Knockin', Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011

Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 read by Drayton Freeman, Trinity, Boston

I Come to the Garden, Hymn, 2008

Sermon: “The Moral Character of God” preached by The Rev. Canon Bonsey

The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen: http://www.incus.net/fr_home.cfm http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/front http://forestdance.net/ ; with The Cathedral Scholars 2011

Prayers

Closing

Organ Symphony #1, Movement 4, Variation 5 and Variation 6, Edward A. Broms; Peter Krasinski www.krasinski.org , organ; 2008

God So Loved the World tag

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 7.3.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Oyaheya tag

Opening

Reading
Prayer from the New Zealand Prayer Book

Lord
it is night.

The night is for stillness.
Let us be still in the presence of God.

It is night after a long day.
What has been done has been done;
what has not been done has not been done;
let it be.

The night is dark.
Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives rest in you.

The night is quiet.
Let the quietness of your peace enfold us,
all dear to us,
and all who have no peace.

The night heralds the dawn.
Let us look expectantly to a new day,
new joys,
new possibilities.

In your name we pray.
Amen.

Anima Christi, Michael Burgo; Cathedral Scholars 2007

Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 read by Diane Pound, Diocesan Staff

Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars 2008

Sermon, Preached by the Rev. Canon Bonsey

Hide Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant, Cathedral Scholars 2008

Prayers

Tu Es Petrus, Maurice Durufle, Cathedral Scholars 2009

Closing

Organ Symphony #1, 4th Movement, Variations 1-4, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms (1 and 3) and Peter Krasinski (2 and 4), organ

God So Loved the World tag

Latin text
Tu es Petrus
et super hanc petram ædificabo ecclesiam meam
et portæ inferi non prævalebunt adversus eam.
Et tibi dabo claves regni cælorum.

English translation
You are Peter,
And upon this Rock I will build My Church:
and the gates of hell shall not overcome it.
And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.


All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

Podcast 26 Jun 2011

1)       Oyaheya (Praise the Spirit) tag

2)       Opening and Reading

      How Some of it Happened by Marie Howe

      My brother was afraid, even as a boy, of going blind—so deeply
that he would turn the dinner knives away from, looking at him,

he said, as they lay on the kitchen table.
He would throw a sweatshirt over those knobs that lock the car door

from the inside, and once, he dismantled a chandelier in the middle
of the night when everyone was sleeping.

We found the pile of sharp and shining crystals in the upstairs hall.
So you understand, it was terrible

when they clamped his one eye open and put the needle in through his cheek
and up and into his eye from underneath

and left it there a full minute before they drew it slowly out
once a week for many weeks. He learned to, lean into it,

to settle down he said, and still the eye went dead, ulcerated,
breaking up green in his head, as the other eye, still blue

and wide open, looked and looked at the clock.

My brother promised me he wouldn’t die after our father died.
He shook my hand on a train going home one Christmas and gave me five years,

as clearly as he promised he’d be home for breakfast when I watched him
walk into that New York City autumn night. By nine, I promise,

and he was—he did come back. And five years later he promised five years more.
So much for the brave pride of premonition,

the worry that won’t let it happen.
You know, he said, I always knew I would die young. And then I got sober

and I thought, OK, I’m not. I’m going to see thirty and live to be an old man.
And now it turns out that I am going to die. Isn’t that funny?

—One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,
the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

This is what my brother said: Here, sit closer to the bed
so I can see you.

3)       Flow My Tears, John Dowland; Salome Sandoval, voice and guitar: www.salomesandoval.com

4)       Reading

5)       Alleluia tag

6)       Sermon

7)       Cum Sancto Spiritu, from Mass in B Minor, J. S. Bach; Choir and Orchestra of L’Ensemble Medical, Gundi Gabrielle, Conductor, with The Cathedral Scholars 2011

8)       Prayers

9)       God So Loved the World, John Stainer, The Cathedral Scholars 2007

10)   Closing

11)   Organ Symphony #1, Movement #3, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2008

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 6.19.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Steal Away tag

Ascension, Edward A. Broms; Edward A, Broms, organ 2008

Opening

Reading
Questions About AngelsQuestions About AngelsBy Billy Collins

Of all the questions you might want to ask
about angels, the only one you ever hear
is how many can dance on the head of a pin.

No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time
besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin
or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth
or guiding a boy and girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

Do they fly through God's body and come out singing?
Do they swing like children from the hinges
of the spirit world saying their names backwards and forwards?
Do they sit alone in little gardens changing colors?

What about their sleeping habits, the fabric of their robes,
their diet of unfiltered divine light?
What goes on inside their luminous heads? Is there a wall
these tall presences can look over and see hell?

If an angel fell off a cloud, would he leave a hole
in a river and would the hole float along endlessly
filled with the silent letters of every angelic word?

If an angel delivered the mail, would he arrive
in a blinding rush of wings or would he just assume
the appearance of the regular mailman and
whistle up the driveway reading the postcards?

No, the medieval theologians control the court.
The only question you ever hear is about
the little dance floor on the head of a pin
where halos are meant to converge and drift invisibly.

It is designed to make us think in millions,
billions, to make us run out of numbers and collapse
into infinity, but perhaps the answer is simply one:
one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet,
a small jazz combo working in the background.

She sways like a branch in the wind, her beautiful
eyes closed, and the tall thin bassist leans over
to glance at his watch because she has been dancing
forever, and now it is very late, even for musicians.

Vision of the Immortal Soul, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2009

Gospel: John Matthew 28:16-20 read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel, Wakefield

Alleluia tag

Sermon “The Holy Trinity and Unholy Trinity” by Dean Jep Streit

Anthem for Pentecost, Richard Proulx; Cathedral Scholars 2007

Prayers

Closing

Organ Symphony #1, Movement #2, Edward A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2008

God So Loved the World tag


All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

1) Meant to Live, Switchfoot; Cathedral Cantorum, J. Thomas Morris, soloist 2011
2) Opening
3) Oyayheya (Praise the Spirit), Byers/Beckwith; Cathedral Gospel Choir, Patrice Williamson, soloist 2009
4) Reading
5) Alleluia tag: Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Cathedral Scholars 2007
6) Sermon: The Legacy of Jesus, Bishop Barbara C. Harris
7) Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen; Cathedral Cantorum, Jamie Lynn Hart and Joya Abbott-Graves, soloists 2011
8) Prayers
9) Closing
10) Organ Symphony #1, Movement #1: The Holy Ones, Edward A. Broms (based on Ainulindale by J.R.R. Tolkien); Peter Krasinski, organ; Recorded live at Holy Name Parish, West Roxbury, MA 2008

The River of Now

1) Ascension, Edward. A. Broms; Edward A. Broms, organ 2007
2) Opening
3) Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder; Sara Richardson, vocals; Penny Larson, percussion; Ed Broms, piano 2008
4) Reading
5) Alleluia tag
6) Sermon, Rev. Cristina Rathbone: “The River of Now”
7) God So Loved the World, John Stainer; Cathedral Scholars 2007
8) Prayers
9) Closing
10) Lift Him Up, Hezekiah Walker, Cathedral Gospel Choir 2010

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.2.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

If Ye Love Me, Carson Cooman; Sara Bielanski, mezzo-soprano, and Jamie Lynn Urquhart, soprano, 2009

Opening

Reading

Excerpt from a letter from The Most. Revd. Mauricio Andrade, Primate/Archbishop of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil.:

We praise God for these achievements, trusting that they are part of the gradual and subtle inspiration of the Holy Spirit in transforming our society. We call all Anglicans to welcome every person who seeks us, to pray for them and to accompany them pastorally, in the understanding that the Church is a building under construction and its entire membership is only known by Christ Himself, the Lord of the Church.

Simple Song, Leonard Bernstein; Sara Bielanski, mezzo-soprano, 2009

Gospel: John 14:15-21 read by John Anderson, Trinity, Concord

Alleluia tag

Sermon by Steven Bonsey: Un-dividing the World

Sing Ye Faithful, Wayne Dirksen; Cathedral Scholars, 2009

Prayers

Closing

You Are So Beautiful, Billy Preston; Ed Broms, piano and vocal, 2008

God So Loved the World tag


All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.22.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Come, My Way, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano, 2008

Opening and extrascriptural readings

O How Amiable, Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Cathedral Scholars, 2006

Gospel: John 14:1-14 read by Elizabeth Eaton, St. Peter’s, Weston

Alleluia tag

Sermon by Dean Jep Streit

Love Bade Me Welcome, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Katherine Growdon, Mezzo-Soprano, 2009

Prayers

Closing

Laudamus Te, J.S. Bach, from Mass in B Minor; L’Ensemble Medical with The Cathedral Scholars, Gundi Gabrielle, Conductor, 2011

God So Loved the World tag


All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.15.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

The Blues Exsultet, Ed Broms; Ed Broms, vocalist; with Mike Null, guitar; and the Cathedral Gospel Choir; 2009

Opening

Excerpts from A Thousand Reasons for Living by Dom Helder Camara

I pray incessantly
for the conversion
of the prodigal son’s
brother.

Ever in my ear
rings the dread warning:
‘The one has awoken
from his life of sin.
When will the other
awaken
from his virtue?’

29 August 1962

Accept
surprises
that upset your plans,
shatter your dreams,
give a completely
different turn
to your day
and—who knows?—
to your life.
It is not chance.
Leave the Father free
himself to weave
the pattern of your days.

6 July 1971

I wish I were
a humble puddle
that would reflect the sky!

20 April 1947

The Lord is My Shepherd, Thomas Matthews; The Cathedral Scholars; Jessica Rossi, soprano; 2008

Gospel: John 10:1-10 read by Michael Kemp, St. Andrew’s, Wellesley

Sermon by the Bishop Barbara Harris: Sheep, Shepherd and Abundant Living

Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Richard Shepherd; The Cathedral Scholars; Jamie Lynn Urquhart, soprano; Joshua May, tenor; 2009

Prayers

Closing

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands; Margaret Bonds; Caroline Musica, soprano, 2007

God So Loved the World tag


All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 5.8.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, G.F. Handel, from Messiah; Jamie Lynn Hart, soprano

Opening

Readings

Sometimes called the Japanese St. Francis, Ryokan lived in lonely hut in the forest and returned one night to discover that a thief had stolen even the few belongings he had. Then he wrote this poem:

The thief
Left it behind ---
The moon in the window.

I was sitting here, forlorn, empty, more than sad
When suddenly, a fierce fluttering, wings battering the window
Brighter than the cardinal, more resplendent than the cockatoo
Awakened, reborn; I realized, I recognized
The Guardian Angel who I thought deserted me years ago,

John M. Powers Founder of St. Francis House
And Stone Soup Poets (1937-2010)

Abide With Me, Hymn, 2009

Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 read by Taylor Anderson, Trinity, Concord

Sermon by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone

Sing Ye Faithful, Sing With Gladness, Wayne Dirksen; Cathedral Scholars, 2009

Prayers

Closing

God So Loved the World tag

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.24.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Easter Chorale, Samuel Barber; Scholars, 2007

Opening

My Dead Friends
By Marie Howe

I have begun,
when I’m weary and can’t decide an answer to a bewildering question

to ask my dead friends for their opinion
and the answer is often immediate and clear.

Should I take the job? Move to the city? Should I try to conceive a child in my middle age?

They stand in unison shaking their heads and smiling—whatever leads to joy, the always answer,

to more life and less worry. I look into the case where Billy’s ashes were—it’s green in there, a green vase,

and I ask Billy if I should return the difficult phone call, and he says, yes.
Billy’s already gone through the frightening door,

whatever he says I’ll do.

Easter Epistle, Edward A. Broms; Scholars, 2007

Gospel: John10:1-18 read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity, Concord

Alleluia tag

Sermon by the Very Rev. Jep Streit

Psalm 66: Be Joyful in God, Carson Cooman; Scholars 2009

Prayers

Closing

Gloria in excelsis, Et in terra pax, J. S. Bach from the Mass in B Minor; L’Ensemble

Medical of Munich, Germany with the Cathedral Scholars, Gundi Gabrielle, Director; 2011

God So Loved the World tag

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.17.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Stay With Me, Taize Chant; 2006

Opening

Excerpt from Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

Hate is another of the hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the disinherited in season and out of season. During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. To even the casual observer during the last war it was obvious that the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese gave many persons in our country an apparent justification for indulging all of their anticolored feelings. In a Chicago cab, en route to the University from Englewood, this fact was dramatized for me. The cab had stopped for a red light. Apropos of no conversation the driver turned to me, saying, “Who do they think they are? Those little yellow dogs think they can do that to white men and get away with it!”
During the early days of war I noticed a definite rise in rudeness and overt expressions of color prejudice, especially in trains and other public conveyances. It was very simple; hatred could be brought out into the open, given a formal dignity and a place of respectability. But for the most part we are not vocal about our hatred. Hating is something of which to be ashamed unless it provides for us a form of validation and prestige. If either is provided, then the immoral or amoral character of the hatred is transformed into positive violence.

I Will Rise tag

Gospel: Matthew 21:1-11 read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity, Concord

Hosanna, from Mass in B Minor, J.S. Bach; L’Ensemble Medical with The Cathedral Scholars, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, 2011

Sermon by the Rev. Cannon Cristina Rathbone

Order My Steps, Glen Burleigh; Cathedral Gospel Choir, 2010

Prayers

Closing

Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, no. 4., Francis Poulenc; Cathedral Scholars, 2009

Were You There, Hymn, 2008

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.10.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Be Still and Know tag

Opening

Extra-scriptural Reading:
Excerpt from On the Outside Looking In by Cristina Rathbone

I had spent several hours with Janina, the special-education teacher, and had watching as morning after morning she cloaked her students with an intimate and personal care that stood more effective guard against confusion that surrounds so many kids with special needs and allowed the, to actually think.
One morning she drew little over shapes in green around the sentence “Who Am I?” and then added lines jutting out of it like porcupine quills, next to which she asked the kids to write whatever came into their minds, words or phrases—anything. After two minutes or so a pretty girl, delighted with the newfound knowledge that she could start a new line whenever she wanted if she called what she was writing a poem, came up with the following:

I am a girl
I am in tetligen sumart
and I’m a girl who fighting
to have hight school
and go to collage
I want to become important
and educated
I am a person who fighting
For everything I wanted to be.

Tristis Est Anima Mea, Leo Abbott, Cathedral Scholars, 2008

Gospel: John 11:1-45 read by Cathy Torrey, Trinity, Weymouth

I Am the Bread of Life, Hymn

Sermon by the Rev. Cannon Steven Bonsey: “The Cult of Death”

O Vos Omnes, Pablo Casals; Cathedral Scholars, 2007

Prayers

Closing

Timor et Tremor, Francis Poulenc, Cathedral Scholars, 2009

God So Loved the World tag

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Sacred Time Podcast 4.3.2011
A production of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Be Still and Know tag

Come, My Way, R. V. Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano, 2008

Opening

Extra-scriptural Reading:
From All Saints Daily Reflections by Robert Ellsberg

When I first found out I had cancer, I didn’t know what to pray for. I didn’t know if I should pray for healing or life or death. Then I found peace in praying for what my folks call “God’s perfect will.” As it evolved, my prayer has become “Lord, let me live until I die.” By that I mean I want to live, love, and serve fully until death comes. If that prayer is answered…how long really doesn’t matter. Whether it’s just a few months or a few years is really immaterial.

Out of the Deep, Ps. 130, Eleanor Daley; Cathedral Scholars, 2008

Gospel: John 9:1-41 read by Drayton Freeman, Trinity, Boston

I Will Rise tag

Sermon by the Very Rev. Jep Streit: “Blind no More”

The Lord is My Shepherd, Matthew Shepherd; Cathedral Scholars, Jessica Rossi, Soprano, 2007

Prayers

Closing

Agnus Dei, from Mass in B Minor, J.S. Bach; L’Ensemble Medical, Gundi Gabrielle, Director, with the Cathedral Scholars, Theresa Patten, Alto, 2011

All Music recorded live at the Cathedral under the direction of Ed Broms, Cathedral Music Director and Organist unless otherwise noted.