Podcast 11.6.11

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

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

There was no sermon, only announcements.

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

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

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

Who can believe it?

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

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

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1) Steal Away tag
2) Opening
3) Reading

The Star Market by Marie Howe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Podcast 26 Jun 2011

1)       Oyaheya (Praise the Spirit) tag

2)       Opening and Reading

      How Some of it Happened by Marie Howe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and wide open, looked and looked at the clock.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4)       Reading

5)       Alleluia tag

6)       Sermon

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

8)       Prayers

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

10)   Closing

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