Notes on the Notes
Notes on the Notes – December 10, 2023
Advent 2 This week’s music: “All Earth is Waiting” (VU #5) “All earth is waiting to see the Promised One, and open furrows await the seed of God. All the world, bound and struggling, seeks true liberty; it cries out for justice and searches for the truth. Thus says the prophet to those of Israel, “A […]
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Notes on the Notes – December 3, 2023
Advent 1 This week’s music: “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (VU #2) “Come, thou long-expected Jesus, born to set they people free: From our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. Born thy people to deliver; born a child and yet a king; Born to reign in us for ever; now thy […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 26, 2023
Reign of Christ Sunday This week’s music: “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374) “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes, that we can see All the […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 19, 2023
This week’s music: “We are Pilgrims (The Servant Song)” (VU #595) “We are pilgrims on a journey, fellow travelers on the road; We are here to help each other walk the mile and bear the load. Sister, let me be your servant, let me be as Christ to you; Pray that I may have the grace to […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 12, 2023
This week’s music: “God of the Bible” (MV #28) “God of the Bible, God in the Gospel, hope seen in Jesus, hope yet to come, You are our centre, daylight or darkness, freedom or prison, you are our home. God in our struggles, God in our hunger, suffering with us, taking our part, Still you empower […]
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Notes on the Notes – November 5, 2023
Remembrance Sunday This Week’s Music: “God! As with Silent Hearts” (VU #527) “God! As with silent hearts we bring to mind How hate and war diminish humankind, We pause, and seek in worship to increase Our knowledge of the things that make for peace. Hallow our will as humbly we recall the lives of those who […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 29, 2023
Our Saints Sunday This week’s music: “Come In, Come in and Sit Down” (VU #395) “Come in, come in and sit down, You are a part of the family. We are lost and we are found, And we are a part of the family. You know the reason why you came, Yet no reason can explain; […]
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Bulletin – Sunday, October 22, 2023 – Homecoming
Sunday, October 22, 2023 Homecoming Approach Welcome Acknowledgement to the Territory One: Please join me in an Acknowledgement to the Territory. All: Indigenous peoples, for thousands of years, have walked on this land. We acknowledge the first peoples and their stewardship throughout the ages. The relationship with the land we worship and live on is […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 22, 2023
Homecoming Sunday/65th Anniversary of Windsor Park United Church “Come In, Come in and Sit Down” (VU #395) “Come in, come in and sit down, You are a part of the family. We are lost and we are found, And we are a part of the family. You know the reason why you came, Yet no reason […]
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Notes on the Notes – October 15, 2023
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 8, 2023
Thanksgiving Sunday Fifth Sunday of 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 1, 2023
World Communion Sunday 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 greater still […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 24, 2023
Third Sunday of Creation Sunday Before Orange Shirt Day/National Day of Truth & Reconciliation This week’s music: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” (VU #651) “Guide me, O though great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 17, 2023
Second Sunday of the Season of Creation Communion This week’s music: “God is Here” (VU #389) “God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer, May we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share. Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts […]
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Notes on the Notes – September 10, 2023
First Sunday in the Season of Creation Welcome Sunday! 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, […]
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