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Prayers of the People - Sunday, May 16, 2010
By Joan O’Laney
Gracious Spirit, Holy Friend, you who are the love surrounding us, teach us to love ourselves, to see ourselves honestly -- our beauties and strengths and capabilities -- our weaknesses and fears and anxieties. Help us to know what we really need and how to ask for it.
Hymn Blog - May 16, 2010
MV 37 – Each Blade of Grass. Keri Wehlander is an author, hymn lyricist, liturgical dancer and leader of retreats and workshops. Spirituality and the arts provide a primary focus for her work in various settings in both her native Canada and the U.S. She has set this text , celebrating the many wonders of creation, to RHODE ISLAND, a tune from The United States Sacred Harmony, a songbook published by Amos Pilsbury in Boston in 1799.
Hymn Blog - May 9, 2010
May 9, 2010 – Easter VI
VU 415 – God, We Praise You for the Morning. This is a lovely opening hymn with tune by Jim Strathdee and text by Jim and Jean Strathdee. The Strathdees live in Southern California and have contributed greatly to Christian hymnody over many years. The Strathdees are performing in concert at Leaside United Church on Tuesday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Hymn Blog - May 2, 2010
May 2, 2010 – Easter V
Hymn Blog - April 25, 2010
April 25, 2010 – Easter IV
Hymn Blog - April 18, 2010
VU 186 – Now the Green Blade Rises. John Macleod Campbell Crum wrote this text in 1928. He was a Church of England clergyman who served from 1929 to 1943 as canon of Canterbury. The tune, NOËL NOUVELET, is a fifteenth century French carol tune, and comes to us via “the Oxford Book of Carols” (1928).
People's Prayer April 11, 2010
By Bob Savaria
Hymn Blog - April 11, 2010
Hymn Blog - April 4, 2010
Hymn Blog - March 28, 2010
MV 128 – When They Heard That Jesus Was Coming. Author and composer Rory Cooney is director of liturgy and music at St. Anne Catholic Community in Barrington, Illinois. Here he uses language from early church antiphons for a Palm Sunday processional.