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Fr. Kevin Culligan, OCD, (Member of the Carmelite Order) will bring his lifelong love and knowledge of Teresa of Avila to the Lenten series on meditative prayer on Sunday, March 10, at 11:30am after our Sunday Eucharist. He will talk briefly about Teresa, her extraordinary insights into God's love, and then will lead us in a guided meditation based on her Prayer of Recollection. All are encouraged to join us for this extraordinary opportunity to learn from and pray with Fr. Culligan, who is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable people in the world on St. Teresa and her prayer life.
Fr. Kevin Culligan, OCD, (Member of the Carmelite Order) will bring his lifelong love and knowledge of Teresa of Avila to the Lenten series on meditative prayer on Sunday, March 10, at 11:30am after our Sunday Eucharist. He will talk briefly about Teresa, her extraordinary insights into God's love, and then will lead us in a guided meditation based on her Prayer of Recollection. All are encouraged to join us for this extraordinary opportunity to learn from and pray with Fr. Culligan, who is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable people in the world on St. Teresa and her prayer life.
Sacred Time Podcast 7 October 2012 (Last Podcast for now!)
Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist
1) Hands, Jewel; Jamie Lynn Hart, vocals 2) Opening 3) All Creatures, Hymn 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Streit 7) Lord, Make Me An Instrument, John Rutter; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) The Saints, Trad.; Cantorum
From the play "Angels in America:"
Night flight to San Francisco. Chase the moon across America.
God! It's been years since I was on a plane!
When we hit thirty-five thousand feet, we'll have reached the tropopause. The great belt of calm air. As close as I'll ever get to the ozone.
I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening.
But I saw something only I could see, because of my astonishing ability to see such things.
Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like sky divers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles, and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules, of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired.
Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
Sacred Time Podcast 30 SEP 2012 1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Pilgrim's Hymn, Stephen Paullus; Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Bonsey 7) Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Pilgrim’s Hymn, Stephen Paullus; Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Bonsey 7) Alleluia in D, Karl Henning; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
MONDAY The only permanence is impermanence. “I look back at the house glowing in the evening light—its pinky red bricks, its tawny roof, and the flowers climbing over the walls. The tassels of blue ceanothus are still a mass under out window and the roses everywhere give back the evening light, especially the big red rose vine on the barn glows with a rosy evening light. I try to impress it on my memory. In the years before us we will need this peace we are giving up so lightly. The peace of English gardens may be a rare thing in the near future. I am desperate with the thought that I shall forget it. And then gradually as I sit there I think it is stupid to ‘grab at it’ so frantically. Of course I must lose this garden, as one has to lose everything in life. Nothing is permanent—nothing stays. It is enough to have had it. And it will always be part of the permanent landscape of the mind and that is enough. And who knows how complete the landscape may be, how deeply engraved it is on my memory—perhaps much deeper than I know, perhaps indelibly marked there, not because of my efforts to keep it but in spite of them. Nothing would be lost. ‘Not one sparrow shall fall.’” From the Flower and the Nettle—Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1936-1939, A Harvest Book, 1994, pp. 294-5.
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Out of Mind and into My Heart, Brad Catler: Brad Catler, fujara 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Streit 7) Elegy for Jane, John Eaton; AFMM, afmm.org 8) Prayers 9) Veneration 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
From A Letter From a Birmingham Jail
. . . I must honestly reiterate that I have been disappointed with the church. I do not say that as one of the negative critics who can always find something wrong with the church. I say it as a minister of the gospel, who loves the church; who was nurtured in its bosom; who has been sustained by its spiritual blessings and who will remain true to it as long as the cord of life shall lengthen. I had the strange feeling when I was suddenly catapulted into the leadership of the bus protest in Montgomery several years ago that we would have the support of the white church. I felt that the white ministers, priests and rabbis of the South would be some of our strongest allies. Instead, some have been outright opponents, refusing to understand the freedom movement and misrepresenting its leaders; all to many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of the stained glass windows.
OUT OF MY MIND AND INTO MY HEART – premiere Bradford Catler Bradford Catler, fujara
Bradford Catler’s OUT OF MY MIND AND INTO MY HEART is representative of his pioneering work in American microtonality as a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist. He was the bassist of the Microtones Band, a prominent musician at American Festival of Microtonal Music concerts in New York, and as the tabla player for international Klezmer super star, Giora Feidman. The Fujara is sometimes called the Slovakian peasant flute, and is traditionally used to shepherd sheep. It has few tone holes stretched far apart from each other designed to bring out its rich harmonics.
ELEGY FOR JANE John Eaton Sharon Harms, soprano Joseph Brent, mandolin Oren Fader, guitar Jane Yoon, harp Karl Kramer, conductor
Composer John Eaton’s ELEGY FOR JANE is a setting of the poem by Theodore Roethke for mezzo soprano, mandolin, guitar and harp. “It was commissioned by and dedicated to Julia Bentley, Dimitris Marinos, Paul Bowman, and Alison Attar, and with special thanks to that most comely of muses, who suggested the poem.” The string parts are in scordatura with decidedly quartertone influences. A choice note by Eaton in the score produced by the American Composers Alliance is for the harp: “x x x in the harp part means that I want the buzzing sound caused by a pedal being out of position.” John Eaton is the dean of American microtonal opera, awarded two Guggenheim grants, a MacArthur grant, and two Pris de Rome.
Elegy For Jane: My Student, Thrown by a Horse by Theodore Roethke I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile; And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her, And she balanced in the delight of her thought, A wren, happy, tail into the wind, Her song trembling the twigs and small branches. The shade sang with her; The leaves, their whispers turned to kissing; And the mold sang in the bleached valleys under the rose.
Oh, when she was sad, she cast herself down into such a pure depth, Even a father could not finder her: Scraping her cheek against straw; Stirring the clearest water.
My sparrow, you are not here, Waiting like a fern, making a spiny shadow. The sides of wet stones cannot console me, Nor the moss, would with the last light.
If only I could nudge you from this sleep, My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon. Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: I, with no rights in this matter, Neither father nor lover.
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) The Light Is On, Ed Broms, piano/vocals 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Litanei, Franz Schubert; Aaron Styles, Bass, and Sara Bielanski, Mezzo 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) Improvisation on Birds of the Abyss from Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen; Ed Broms, organ
Jep’s reading for 9/9/12
excerpt from Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey. As my favorite mystic, Lady Julian of Norwich, put it in her Middle English, ‘Sin is behovely!”…
In this book I would like to describe how this message of falling down and moving up is, in fact, the most counter-intuitive message in most of the world’s religions, including and most especially Christianity. We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. That might just be the central message of how spiritual growth happens; yet nothing in us wants to believe it. I actually think it is the only workable meaning of any remaining notion of “original sin.” There seems to have been a fly in the ointment from the beginning, but the key is recognizing and dealing with the fly rather than needing to throw out the whole ointment!
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) My Friend, Ed Broms, piano/vocals 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Vibra, Johnny Reinhard; The American Festival of Microtonal Music 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant 10) Closing 11) Improvisation on Birds of the Abyss, from Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen; Ed Broms, piano
From: Tiny Beautiful Things Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
“. . . I can conjure my mother and my father so clearly on the day I was born. How truly they must have loved me. How they must have held me in their arms and thought that I was a miracle. They must have believed they could be better people than they’d been before. They would be. They knew they would. They had to be. Because now there was me. So it felt particularly acute to sit on that bench absorbing what had just transpired (her dysfunctional father severing ties with her.) I had that feeling you get—there is no word for this feeling—when you are simultaneously happy and sad and angry and grateful and accepting and appalled and every other possible emotion, all smashed together and amplified. Why is there no word for this feeling? Perhaps because the word is ‘healing’ and we don’t want to believe that. We want to believe healing is purer and more perfect, like a baby on its birthday. Like we’re holding it in our hands. Like we’ll be better people than we’ve been before. Like we have to be. It is on that feeling that I have survived. And it will be your salvation too, my dear. When you reach the place that you recognize entirely that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them. That you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them.”
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The Little Vagabond
By William Blake 1757–1827
William Blake Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold, But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm; Besides I can tell where I am used well, Such usage in Heaven will never do well.
But if at the church they would give us some ale, And a pleasant fire our souls to regale, We'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day, Nor ever once wish from the church to stray.
Then the parson might preach, and drink, and sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
And God, like a father rejoicing to see His children as pleasant and happy as he, Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel, But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Let Us Break Bread Together, from the CD: Songs @ The Crossing 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Rathbone 7) Draw Nigh, and Take the Body of the Lord, Richard DeLong; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World, tag
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Out of the Deep (Ps. 130), Eleanor Daley; Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Rathbone 7) Sing Unto the Lord, Kile Smith; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
1) Gospel Chant, Patrice Williamson 2) Opening 3) I Am the Bread of Life, Hymn 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) I Just Can’t Give Up Now, Mary-Mary; The Cathedral Gospel Choir 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) Hold Up the Light, CeCe and Bebe Winans; The Cathedral Gospel Choir
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Alitseka, Flora Mbasha (Tanzania) (translation below); with The Cathedral Gospel Choir 2012 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Bonsey 7) Ameshuka, Flora Mbasha (Tanzania) (translation below); with The Cathedral Gospel Choir 2012 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) Vibra, Johnny Reinhard; American Festival of Microtonal Music, NYC; afmm.org 12) God So Loved the World tag
Translation: Chorus: The Lord Jesus was oppressed, the Lord was forced to bear the cross. (repeat)
1) He cried “Eloi, eloi, eloi lama sabachthani,” My God, my God, why have you forsaken me; his blood and tears flowed bitterly. The Lord said, “My God, my God, if you are willing, let this cup be taken from me.” 2) His side was pierced by the spear. The Lord was beaten, he was oppressed. The Lord was ridiculed so that you and I could be saved. My God, forgive them for they know not what they do. My God, forgive them for they know not what they do. 3) The Lord was oppressed, he suffered bitterly. The Lord said, “Weep for yourselves and your children.” He lowered his head, and gave up his spirit.
“Ameshuka (Make A Way)”
Chorus: Ameshuka kukufuta machozi si wakati wa kulia tena aah. Ameshuka kukufuta machozi si wakati wa kulia tena aah.
Translation: Chorus: He has come down to wipe away my tears, there shall be no more crying, ahh. (repeat)
1) How many times have you prayed, and God has not answered your prayers? How many times have you expected to receive what was due to you, but you have not yet received it? (mam heiyah) How many times have you undertaken the work of the Lord, oh Mama, expecting to see the fruits of your labors, oooh, but you have not yet seen them, yeleli yeleli. Do you think that you are living the life that God has planned for you? No. Do you think that these are righteous thoughts which God has given you? No. God is speaking today through the mouth of his servant. Listen! 2) I have seen your suffering and heard your cries. I am Jehovah, I am that I am; I will abolish your suffering, it shall not rise again. Don’t be sad, Mama, do not cry. Instead, let the joy of salvation fill you; I am God, Alpha and Omega; none surpasses me; I will end your suffering, it shall not rise again. Don’t be sad, Mama, you should not cry; let the joy of your salvation fill you; I will bow your oppressors before you, and you will forget the pains of your labor. Mama, be still, the stresses of life, you will remember no longer. These are not my (Flora’s) words, these are the words of the Lord Jehovah; do not cry; be still, mother, be still, father, be still today, be still, be still.
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) O Lord, Increase My Faith, Carson Cooman; Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Out of the Deep, Eleanor Daley; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) O Seigneur, loué sera JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK (1562-1621); Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Our Father, Alfred Malotte; Lori Dow, soloist 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
O Seigneur, loué sera JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK (1562-1621) O Seigneur, loué sera, O Lord God, to Thee be praise, loué sera ton renom. to Thee be praise evermore; Car la gloire de ton Nom And Thy glory shall be told Près de nous s’approchera: to the ends of all the earth; Et de nous seront chantes, While we sing unceasingly, Les hauts faicts de tes bontes. the great deeds which Thou hast wrought. – Psalm 75:1
Sacred Time Podcast 10 JUNE 2012 Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist
1) Anima Christi, Michael Burgo; Scholars 2) Opening 3) Sweetness is Knocking, Jason Cohen 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen 8) Prayers 9) Veneration, Jason Cohen 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time Podcast 27 MAY 2012 Pentecost Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Thank You, Richard Smallwood; The Cathedral Gospel Choir 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Anthem for Pentecost, Richard Proulx; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time Podcast 3 JUN 2012 Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One, Healey Willan; Scholars 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Love Bade Me Welcome, R. V. Williams; Katherine Growdon, Mezzo-Soprano 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Let Us Worship Christ, Yolanda Adams; Lori Dow, vocalist 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Sing Unto the Lord A New Song, Carlyle Sharpe; Scholars 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) Ascension, Edward A, Broms; Ed Broms, organ
1) Come My Way, R.V. Williams; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano 2008 2) Opening 3) Simple Song, Leonard Bernstein; Sara Bielanski, Mezzo-Soprano 2010 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon, Bonsey 7) Love Bade Me Welcome, R. V. Williams; Katherine Growdon, Mezzo-Soprano 2009 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) Laudamus Te, W. A. Mozart; Molly Jo Rivelli, Soprano 2006
1) The Lord Is My Shepherd, Michael Shepherd; Scholars 2009 2) Opening 3) Order My Steps, Glenn Burleigh; Gospel Choir 2010 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Total Praise, Richard Smallwood, Gospel Choir 2009 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
Excerpt from Meditations of a Moveable Chair by Andre Dubus A sacrament is physical, and within it is God's love; as a sandwich is physical, and nutritious, and pleasurable, and within it is love, if someone makes it for you and gives it to you with love; even harried or tired or impatient love, but with love’s direction and concern, love’s again and again wavering and distorted focus on goodness; then God’s love too is in the sandwich. A sacrament is an outword sign of God’s love, they taught me when I was a both, and in the Catolic church there are seveb. But, no, I say, for the church is catholic, the world is catholic, and there are seven times seventy sacraments, to infinity. Today I sit at my desk in June in Massachusetts; a breeze from the southeast comes through the window behind me, touched me, and goes through the open glass door in front of me. The sky is blue, and cumulus clouds are motionless above green trees lit brightly by the sun shining in dry air. In humid air, the leaves would be darker, but now they are bright, and you can see lighted space between them, so that each lef is distinct; and each leaf is receiving sacraments of light and air and water and earth. So am I, in the breeze of my skin, the air I breath, the sky and earth and trees I look at. If I were much wiser, and much more patient, and had much greater concentration, I could sit in silence in my chair, look out my windows at a green tree and the blue sky, and know that breathing is a gift; that a breath is efficient for the moment; and that breathing air is breathing God 3) My Master From A Garden Rose, Gordon Young; Scholars 2007 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Sing, Ye Faithful, Wayne Dirksen; Scholars 2009 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time Podcast 15 APR 2011 Edward A. Broms, Director of Music and Organist
1) T.G.T.T. (Too Good To Title), Duke Ellington; Aubrey Johnson, Vocalist, 2011 2) Opening 3) Ps. 66 Be Joyful In God, Carson Cooman, Scholars, 2012 4) Reading 5) Alleluia tag 6) Sermon 7) Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in All Lands), BWV 51, Johann Sebastian Bach; Jaya Lakshminarayanan, Soprano, 2008 8) Prayers 9) Veneration tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for April 8, 2012 Podcast 8 APR 2012
1) My Lord What A Morning, Harry T. Burleigh; Scholars 2008 2) Opening 3) Easter Chorale, Samuel Barber, Scholars 2007 4) Gospel read by Pace Willisson, Christ Church, Medway 5) Easter Epistle, Edward A. Broms; Scholars 2007 6) Sermon preached by Jep Streit 7) Easter Triumph, Easter Joy, Carson Cooman; Scholars 2009 8) Prayers 9) Veneration Chant tag 10) Closing 11) God So Loved the World tag
1) Fanye Njia, Flora Mbasha (From Tanzania); text below 2) Opening 3) Reading Excerpt from "THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS" By Oliver Wendall Holmes (1809-94).
Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn; While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:--
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! 4) Lord, I Lift Your Name on High, Rick Founds; Cantorum, 2012 5) Gospel reading read by Bernie Hutchens, Emmanuel Church, Wakefield 6) Psalm 22, setting by Edward A. Broms; Scholars, 2007 7) Sermon 8) Christus Factus Est, Anton Bruckner; Scholars, 2008 9) Prayers 10)The New Medicine Song, Jason Cohen; Scholars with Jason Cohen and Incus, 2011 11)Closing 12)Vinea Electa Mea, Francis Poulenc; Scholars, 2010
FANYA NJIA, by Flora Mbasha fanya njia Bwana fanya njia Bwana fanya njia Bwana fanya njia BWana.
MAKE A WAY Done through the Lord Made through the Lord Done through the Lord Make a way Lord
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 25, 2012
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Reading Praying
It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
~ Mary Oliver ~ 4) 5) Call to Remembrance, Carson Cooman; Scholars 2009 6) Gospel Reading read by Marianne Evett, All Saints, Brookline 7) Trisagion tag 8) Sermon, Streit 9) The Light Is On, Ed Broms; Ed Broms, piano and vocals 2009 10) Prayers 11) Jesus, Remember Me tag 12) Motet for the Annunciation, Frank Ferko
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 18, 2012
1. O Taste and See, R.V. Williams; Cantorum 2012 2. Opening 3. From Now and Then by Frederick Buechner
Humanly speaking, in fact, who can say for sure about anything? And yet there are some things I would be willing to bet maybe even my life on.
That life is grace, for instance—the givenness of it, the fathomlessness of it, the endless possibilities of its becoming transparent to something extraordinary beyond itself. That—as I picked up somewhere in Jung and whittled into the ash stick I use for tramping around through the woods sometimes—vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit, which I take to mean that in the long run, whether you call on him or don’t call on him, God will be present with you. That if we really had our eyes open, we would see that all moments are key moments. That he who does not love remains in death. That Jesus is the Word made flesh who dwells among us full of grace and truth. On good days I might add a few more to the list. On bad days it’s possible there might be a few less.
Beyond that, all I can do with real assurance is once more to echo my old teacher Paul Tillich to the effect that here and there even in our world, and now and then even in ourselves, we catch glimpses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glimpses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.
“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found,” as Godric says, “and all death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.” 1) Rock of Ages, hymn 2) Gospel Reading read by Thomas Phillips, Trinity Church, Concord 3) God So Loved the World, John Stainer, Scholars 2007 4) Sermon preached by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone 5) A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke; J. Thomas Morris, soloist 2012 6) Prayers 7) Improvisation on Rock of Ages, Ed Broms, piano 2012 8) Closing 9) Improvisation on Guide Me, O Thou Jehovah, Ed Broms, piano 2012
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 11, 2012
1. Steal Away tag 2. Opening 3. The Beulah Land, Squire Parsons; Shelby Condray, baritone, 2012 4. Reading
The Prayer of Archbishop Oscar Romero It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, It is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, Which is another way of saying that The Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that should be said. No prayer fully expressed our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, Knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produced effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything, And there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, A step along the way, An opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, But that is the difference Between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, Ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future that is not our own. 1) Trisagion tag 2) Sermon 3) The Glory Train, Penn and Spooner Oldham; Cantorum, J. Thomas Morris, soloist; 2012 4) Prayers 5) Jesus Remember Me, Taize 6) Closing 7) God So Loved the World, tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for March 4, 2012
1) The Name Above All Names, Carson Cooman; Scholars, 2012 2) Opening 3) Reading
Excerpt from Dare to Forgive by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
When we have been hurt, or when we have hurt someone else, the cumbersome psychological machinery of retribution cranks up like an awful instrument from the Great Inquisition. The cables of this psychological machinery run deep in our brains and in our cultural history. If there were a set of Newton’s Laws for psychology as there is for motion, one of them would surely be: For every wrong, humans seek an equal and opposite wrong. We don’t have much equipment to resist this all-but-irresistible force. The only tool we’re given to resist it is our will to do so, but we must use that lonely tool as pitifully inadequate as it might seem to be. By wanting to, we can start to renounce the forces of hatred coiled within us. On the other hand, if you don’t want to, you won’t forgive. You’ll merely forget. But habitual, active forgiveness, the kind of forgiveness that elevates your life and makes you a healthier, happier, more effective person, does not happen by accident, by revelation or by mere passage of time. Forgiveness comes from a decision you made long ago to live a certain way. You don’t have to be religious; indeed, many religious people can’t forgive anything. You don’t have to be goody-goody; indeed, many goody-goodies are secretly nasty. You don’t have to become a saint, take special vows, undergo therapy or get on some medication. All you really have to do is look for the best in others and in yourself. When you try to do that, you set forgiveness in motion.
4) Psalm 103, setting by Edward A. Broms; Scholars, 2012 5) Gospel Reading read by Charlie Evett, All Saints Brookline 6) Trisagion tag 7) Sermon: “Misery and Lent” preached by The Reverend Canon Steven C. Bonsey 8) Nunc Dimittis, Karl Henning; Scholars 2012 9) Prayers 10) Veneration Chant tag 11) Closing 12) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 26, 2012
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) Call to Remembrance, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars, 2007 5) Gospel Reading read by Sue Kelly, Diocesan Staff 6) Holy God, from Songs @ The Crossing tag 7) Sermon: The Wilderness of Lent preached by Dean Streit 8) Hid Not Thou Thy Face, Richard Farrant; Cathedral Scholars, 2007 9) Prayers 10) Veneration Chant tag 11) Closing 12) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 19, 2012 1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Reading Excerpt from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by the multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. 4) A Cosmic Prayer, Carson Cooman: Scholars 2009 5) Gospel Reading read by Diane Pound, Diocesan Staff 6) Alleluia tag 7) Sermon, preached by The Rev. Cristina Rathbone 8) Alleluia, Randall Thompson; Scholars 2009 9) Prayers 10) Veneration Chant tag 11) Closing 12) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 12, 2012
1) Steal Away tag 2) Opening 3) Reading Excerpt from “Can You Say…Hero?” by Tom Junod Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. Heaven is the place where good people go when they die, but this man, Fred Rogers, didn't want to go to heaven; he wanted to live in heaven, here, now, in this world, and so one day, when he was talking about all the people he had loved in this life, he looked at me and said, "The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is, Tom. We make so many connections here on earth. Look at us--I've just met you, but I'm investing in who you are and who you will be, and I can't help it." The next afternoon, I went to his office in Pittsburgh. A woman was with him, sitting in a big chair. Her name was Deb. She was a minister at Fred Rogers's church. She spent much of her time tending to the sick and the dying. Fred Rogers loved her very much, and so, out of nowhere, he smiled and put his hand over hers. "Will you be with me when I die?" he asked her, and when she said yes, he said, "Oh, thank you, my dear." Then, with his hand still over hers and his eyes looking straight into hers, he said, "Deb, do you know what a great prayer you are? Do you know that about yourself? Your prayers are just wonderful." Then he looked at me. I was sitting in a small chair by the door, and he said, "Tom, would you close the door, please?" I closed the door and sat back down. "Thanks, my dear," he said to me, then turned back to Deb. "Now, Deb, I'd like to ask you a favor," he said. "Would you lead us? Would you lead us in prayer?" Deb stiffened for a second, and she let out a breath, and her color got deeper. "Oh, I don't know, Fred," she said. "I don't know if I want to put on a performance …" Fred never stopped looking at her or let go of her hand. "It's not a performance. It's just a meeting of friends," he said. He moved his hand from her wrist to her palm and extended his other hand to me. I took it and then put my hand around her free hand. His hand was warm, hers was cool, and we bowed our heads, and closed our eyes, and I heard Deb's voice calling out for the grace of God. What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella. I had never prayed like that before, ever. I had always been a great prayer, a powerful one, but only fitfully, only out of guilt, only when fear and desperation drove me to it … and it hit me, right then, with my eyes closed, that this was the moment Fred Rogers--Mister Rogers--had been leading me to from the moment he answered the door of his apartment in his bathrobe and asked me about Old Rabbit. Once upon a time, you see, I lost something, and prayed to get it back, but when I lost it the second time, I didn't, and now this was it, the missing word, the unuttered promise, the prayer I'd been waiting to say a very long time. "Thank you, God," Mister Rogers said. 4) Phos Hilaron, James Woodman; Scholars 2009 5) Gospel read by Alison Hay, Diocesan Staff 6) Alleluia tag 7) Sermon preached by the Rev. Canon Steven C. Bonsey 8) Eternal Light, Herbert Howells; Scholars 2007 9) Prayers 10) The Lord Is My Light, hymn 11) Closing 12) God So Loved the World tag
Sacred Time from St. Paul’s, Notes for February 5, 2012
1) Nuhro (Hymn of Light) – excerpt 1; Karl Henning; Scholars 2009 2) Opening 3) Reading
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety –
best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
4) Nuhro-excerpt 2 5) Gospel read by Clare Moffitt, Diocesan Staff 6) Nuhro-excerpt 3 7) Sermon preached by Dean Jep Streit 8) Surge Illuminare, William Byrd; Scholars 2008 9) Prayers 10) Nuhro-excerpt 4 11) Closing 12) 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. +++++
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.
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
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 5.8.2011 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 4.17.2011 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.
Sacred Time - Blind No More
04-01-2011 | Rev. Jep Streit
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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.
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