Notes on the Notes
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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Notes on the Notes – August 31, 2025
This Week’s Music: “Let Us Build a House (All are Welcome)” (MV #1) “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace; Here the love […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 24, 2025
This week’s music: “Teach Me, God, to Wonder” (Voices United #299, Song for a Gospel People #36) “Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; Let your world of beauty capture me. Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, Life be celebrated, joy you give. Let me, God, be open, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 17, 2025
This week’s music: “How Great Thou Art” (Voices United #238, Songs for a Gospel People #50) “O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all the works Thy hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior God, […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 10, 2025
This week’s music: “Are You a Shepherd” (MV #126) “Are you a shepherd, good shepherd who leads us safely through danger, while calming our fears? Are you a father who shelters and feeds us, shares in our laughter and wipes away tears? Yes, you are shepherd, parent and teacher, but you are greater than all that […]
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Notes on the Notes – August 3, 2025
This week’s music: “For the Beauty of the Earth” (VU #226) “For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, God of all, to you we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. For the beauty of each hour of the […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 29, 2025
This week’s music: “Teach Me, God, to Wonder” (Voices United #299, Song for a Gospel People #36) “Teach me, God, to wonder, teach me, God, to see; Let your world of beauty capture me. Praise to you be given, love for you be lived, Life be celebrated, joy you give. Let me, God, be open, let […]
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Notes on the Notes – June 22, 2025
Sunday following National Indigenous Day This week’s music: “Creator God, You Gave Us Life” (MV #27) “Creator God, you gave us life, your image formed within our souls, Yet through the mist of time and space, we search for that which makes us whole. In every flower and every tree, we see your great diversity, Yet […]
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