Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – December 14, 2025
Advent 3 This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” (TLUS #55) “We light this candle for Joy. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Joy can find a way, So Joy can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) and arranged by David […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 7, 2025
Advent 2 This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” (TLUS #55) “We light this candle for Peace. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Peace can find a way, So Peace can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) and arranged by David Kai […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 30, 2025
Advent 1/Communion This week’s music: “We Light This Candle” (TLUS #55) “We light this candle for Hope. Await the new life within. May our hearts now live each day, So Hope can find a way, So Hope can find a way.” Our Advent candle-lighting song was written by Pat Mayberry (2016) and arranged by David […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 23, 2025
Reign of Christ Sunday This week’s music: “Sing Your Praise to God Eternal” (VU #244) “Sing your praise to God eternal, sing your praise to God the Son, Sing your praise to God the Spirit, living and forever One. God has made us, God has blessed us, God has called us to be true. God […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 16, 2025
This week’s music: “God, We Praise You for the Morning” (VU #415, SFGP #79) “God we praise you for the morning; Hope springs forth with each new day, New beginning, prayer, and promise, Joy in work and in play. God, we praise you for creation, Mountains, seas, and prairie land. Waking souls find joy and […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 9, 2025
Remembrance Sunday This week’s music: “God, Make Us Servants of Your Peace” (VU #676) “God, make us servants of your peace: Where there is hate, may we sow love; Where there is hurt, may we forgive; Where there is strife, may we make one. Where all is doubt, may we sow faith; Where all is gloom, […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 2, 2025
Our Saints Sunday This week’s music: “Eternal, Unchanging, We Sing” (VU #223) “Eternal, Unchanging, we sing to your praise: Your mercies are endless, and righteous your ways; Your servants proclaim the renown of your name Who rules over all and is ever the same. Again we rejoice in the world you have made, Your mighty creation […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 26, 2025
This week’s music: “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom” (MV #10) “Come and seek the ways of Wisdom, she who danced when earth was new. Follow closely what she teaches, for her words are right and true. Wisdom clears the path to justice, showing us what love must do. Listen to the voice of […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 19, 2025
World Food Sunday This week’s music: “Give Thanks, My Soul, for Harvest” (VU #522) “Give thanks, my soul, for harvest, for store of fruit and grain, But know the owner gives so that we may share again. Where people suffer hunger, or little children cry, With gifts from God’s rich bounty may thankfulness reply. Give thanks, […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 12, 2025
Thanksgiving Sunday Sixth Sunday in the Season of Creation This week’s music: “We Praise You, O God” (VU #218) The title for our hymn book, Voices United, comes from the third stanza of this hymn. The words were written by Julia Cory in 1902 at the request of the organist, for a Thanksgiving service at Brick Presbyterian Church in […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 5, 2025
This Week’s Music: “All Who Hunger” (VU #460) “All who hunger, gather gladly; holy manna is our bread. Come from wilderness and wandering. Here, in truth, we will be fed. You that yearn for days of fullness, all around us is our food. Taste and see the grace eternal. Taste and see that God is good. […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 28, 2025
Fourth Sunday in the Season of Creation/ Sunday before the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation This week’s music: “Many and Great, O God, Are Your Works” (VU #308) “Many and great, O God, are your works, Maker of earth and sky. Your hands have set the heavens with stars, Your fingers spread the mountains and […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 21, 2025
Creation 3 This week’s music: “Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above” (VU #216) “Sing praise to God, who reigns above, the God of all creation, The God of power, the God of love, the God of our salvation; With healing balm my soul is filled, and every faithless murmur stilled; To God all praise and […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 14, 2025
Creation 2 This week’s music: “Help Us Accept Each Other” (SFGP #8) “Help us accept each other as Christ accepted us; Teach us as sister, brother, each person to embrace. Be present, God, among us and bring us to believe we are ourselves accepted and meant to love and live. Teach us, O God, your […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 7, 2025
Creation 1 This week’s music: “What is the Place” (Songs For a Gospel People #70) “What is the place where we are meeting? Only a house, the earth its floor, walls and a roof sheltering people, windows for light, an open door. Yet it becomes a body that lives when we are gathered here, and […]
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